What other outlets are there to ask technical questions?

Stack Overflow isn't working anymore. Technical questions are met with a condescending "What have you tried?" or "This is a duplicate." It feels like one of those customer service centers where people are trying to hang up the phone as fast as possible, rather than trying to help.

SO management seems to have prioritized politeness, but this just sort of ends up as passive-aggressive bureaucracy - don't ask for best practices, don't start questions with "how", informing you that questions of this phrasing are often downvoted or ignored. Ideally, it would be like the other Stack Exchange communities, but it's not, and here we are.

Quora does this, but there's but it's a gated community that makes it not easily searchable. I'd like something I can invest my time into helping answer questions as well, and is a little friendlier.