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Why not hackernoon or any other blogging platform, then? Stackoverflow is gatekept, not super friendly, and you can only share things in response to people's questions.

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I believe StackOverflow is just listed as an example of decent site design, it's well-known to be a ludicrously terrible resource considering its popularity.

Yes, I just listed StackOverflow there as an example for two reasons:

1. It is public (you don't need a subscription) 2. It has a license for using the code there (https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing)

I am not affiliated in anyway with StackOverflow and actually I created a new account because of some things I disagree with.

> and you can only share things in response to people's questions

It is ok to ask and answer your own question.

That's true. Though, I'll also say that my experience and expectation from medium articles and SO are different too. Medium lends itself to more end-to-end stories (here are the steps, combining these 3 libraries, to accomplish this task), whereas SO feels like it's more focused (Why does this part of my toolchain break?). The upvote/downvote mechanism also doesn't really lend itself to tutorials. I feel like if you wanted tutorials on SO, you'd want to branch SO itself into a different entity.

You can even write an answer for your question at the same time you're writing the answer (you may need 15+ reputation though).

hackernoon is on Medium, no?

They used to be but they left.

https://hackernoon.com/why-is-hackernoon-com-leaving-medium-...

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