What community do you ask dev questions to?

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Recently I asked a question on Stack Overflow and it was closed due to it being opinion based. This isn't entirely wrong, I wanted to know how people were approaching a problem and the answer may depend on subjective factors. However it struck me that at this stage of my knowledge most things are opinion and not a matter of fact (more art than science), so Stack Overflow just doesn't serve my needs anymore.In the wake of this, I wondered what forums/places people use to ask other people about development/architecture/coding questions and to solicit advice from other developers.The obvious answers to this seem to have some headwinds: Twitter seems good only if you have a minimum viable amount of followers, and HN always seemed more geared towards news than advice.

MattGaiser · Accepted Answer

It depends on your question, but softwareengineering.stackexchange.com might fit for some of them?

NukedOne · Answer

I'll point out that IRC is still a thing and that there are some very helpful master programmers hanging out there.

ksaj · Answer

On Mastodon, using #hashtags, I don't get a lot of activity on my dev type questions, but I get quality activity which suits me even better.
I imagine some languages garner more action than others, but I'm not immune to getting stuck in Python or Lisp, and getting really good replies (and occasionally a full debated thread when there are competing methods with pros and cons.) I find showing at least a vague idea of what you've tried goes a long ways there.
Mastodon being the way it is, doesn't work well for searching out those answers since a lot of people delete their posts automagically after a time, so you probably have to hope your question isn't one they've already answered a dozen times recently.

vinniepukh · Answer

Many OSS projects have a dedicated Discord server these days. I've had some success getting help in those vs asking the same think of StackOverflow or on Github.

realprimoh · Answer

Reddit is pretty good too IMO. When I first started coding, Reddit people would be super helpful to me

cpach · Answer

Did you try Software Engineering Stack Exchange? Might be worth a try.https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/

rohan_ · Answer

Twitter is probably the best, otherwise something like Taro, or bringing on a technical advisor for your startup

quickthrower2 · Answer

I rarely ask, between stack overflows answered questions, AI and searches most of it is there! But if I had to ask: SO or Reddit