I would like to find out the reason of using the Hashnode site to technical issues instead of using the StackOverflow site, whose community is vastly larger and the probability of finding a perfect answer to the question is infinitely greater than wait for a response in Hashnode?
<pt_BR>Eu gostaria de saber qual o motivo de utilizar o site Hashnode para questões técnicas no lugar de utilizar o site StackOverflow, cuja comunidade é imensamente maior e a probabilidade de encontrar uma resposta perfeita para o questionamento seja infinitamente maior do que aguardar uma resposta no Hashnode?<pt_BR>
Here's my observation.
People at stackoverflow are desperate to close any new question they don't want to answer or have made cascading policies to close down.
People at stackoverflow are edgy and often come out as downright rude. They won't even hesitate with personal attacks behind the correction they make in comments. You can google for random problems and may find solution in there but in comments you get to see lot of people who answer are either voted down or ridiculed.
You are going to learn more from youtube than stackoverflow QA threads.
Duplicate questions often don't have answer to tangent outcomes. For example let's assume I want to learn how to work with node on centos. Another person asks questions on node setup with docker centos setup. Both of our questions have chance of lockdown and both may not get answered. Bad question closing policies.
Lot of people at stackoverflow bleed the elite and edgy in their opinion. You can notice their answers are less factual and more of an attempt of building left liberal progressive utopia. (refer to stackexchange sites if you want to see what I mean)
Stackoverflow has no more friendly vibe. You got to be a female to survive there or have found rare question to not get attacked and closed. I don't see any other scenario through which anyone get treated fairly.
That's my blunt opinion about stackoverflow.
The answer is that you don't. You ask technical questions on StackExchange and you do polls and discussions here. Incidentally, the second category is more fun for idle browsing :-)
For me, what I've noticed is that SO doesn't really allow opinionated based questions, meaning there is no room for any gray area, while here on HN, I think not only is it allowed, but encouraged.
For example, here is a question that would almost certainly get down-voted within 5 minutes of being posted:
Should I use jQuery or vanilla javascript in my small side project?
There is no right answer here, it's all how you feel. Those kind of questions are frowned upon on SO, while on here you could have a healthy discussion going on days on the pros and cons of both.
Hey Tetri Mesquita
Hashnode started with a mission to create a friendly network for programmers/software developers. A place where opinions are valued instead of simply solving technical bugs.
Programmers are highly opinionated. They read multiple solutions online and finally use/implement things they are confident with. We want to create a platform where you can ask questions as following:
These are some questions where answers are neither 100% correct nor 100% incorrect. You'll find many such valuable discussion threads on Hashnode.
As we built the platform, we realized programmers care for dev articles and news from other websites as well. Hence, we added "Blogs" and "News" section to Hashnode.
Today, we introduced "Jobs" where developers and recruiters can connect and hire programmers based on their Hashnode profile. It's pretty basic right now and we have plans to add more functionalities to it in the near future.
So, I don't think we are competing with StackOverflow. In some ways, we are complementing it.
Does that answer your question?
well, you are right :). Hashnode cannot compete with stackoverflow in that matter. I think everyone who is using this plattform for a while knows that.
But .... you get more friendly answers here, people don't delete your question, you don't get downvoted just because people don't agree with you.
it's a conversational community. That's the whole point, meanwhile in stackoverflow people do discuss as well but it's not the main focus, the focus is sharing solutions for specific problem cases. And other people decide the value of your question in relation to their solution pool.
So hashnode is somewhere between hackernew, quora, redit and stack-overflow it depends what you want in the end.
We will try to answer all questions to the best of our knowledge if you prefer stack-overflow ... go for it.
Girish Patil
Full-stack engineer
I agree with all the answers here. I believe that you should use this platform for what you cannot get at Stackoverflow which is slightly bound to getting to the right answer.