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I'll one step further: it is the first time I hear about SO's Documentation.

Same here. I've been googling around Django _a lot_ over the last few months (first time using Python for anything web-based, and first time setting up anything more complicated than just nginx/Caddy on the server in a long time, so I had a lot of questions).

I probably ended up on SO hundreds of times in that period, and never once saw Documentation mentioned (I _may_ have technically seen it in the nav bar, but just seeing "Documentation" in that context I'm going to assume it is documentation _for_ SO and just ignore it).

E: Forgot to mention, even reading the title of this post my initial thought was that it was documentation relating to the sunsetting of SO (which sounded crazy).

> Forgot to mention, even reading the title of this post my initial thought was that it was documentation relating to the sunsetting of SO (which sounded crazy)

And I thought it was Stack Overflow sunsetting the very idea of tech documentation because now everybody just read the SO thread for everything they want to do, which is even craziest.

Django is a weird case too because the official docs are so good and also offer very good tutorials. And the Two Scoops book is such an invaluable reference too. Reading both would put you in the position where you won't really need SO for Django questions.

Definitely, the official docs are fantastic. A lot of the SO use came from having a solution based on the docs, but wanting to check I wasn't missing a prefered/recommended way to do it, or being fairly sure something would be a Django built-in but not finding it (so SO was a bridge from how I was describing something to where it was in the official docs).

Which is strange thing. They always have something [unneeded] in a collapsable block at the top, but I never seen Documentation in there, in SO answers, in google, anywhere.

Few announcements through regular comment notifications would be fine to me even if not interested.

>They always have something [unneeded] in a collapsable block at the top

Look again. There is DocumentationBETA in the top bar, it has been there since they started the project.

I think he's talking about the big unnecessary "Welcome Back!" box that appears randomly.

Exactly. Doc-beta link mentioned above is at the area I never focused on. Jobs, >Documentation<, Tags.

My first impression when seeing that there is "Why would I look at the documentation for Stackoverflow, I know my way around this website for what I need to do".

Only in the desktop layout, no tablets or phones.

Anyway, who looks at the navbar? People get there by googling a problem they are having now. They're in hurry, no time to look around.

ditto. Now that I know about it, it sounds like a thing I would have liked to use had I known about it.

It's been in the nav bar at the top for a long time - perhaps people just don't look at that anymore.

One datapoint: I completely ignore it, and might even have a ublock rule to throw out what I see as a useless bar.

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