Instead of striving to improve the user experience then the moderators spend their time bickering over meta issues. Many haven't asked or answered a question in the last five years.
Thinking about it, know I want a "Current Drama" button where the "I'm feeling lucky" button used to be on gSearch :)
At least I feel more often the need to ask if I'm making a sane choice for the next few years rather than literal `1 + 1` questions with clear ever-green answers, which StackOverflow seems to prefer.
Otherwise, if you explain why you’re asking the question again, link to the previous question, and maybe present arguments why you think the old answers might be outdated, then it’s lesa likely to be closed as a duplicate.
And of course many people come to SO with unformed questions or want a discussion for the social interaction, resulting in them getting hit with the SO hammer. Not quite sure where they've ended up, but the obvious one is Reddit.
People keep mentioning Discord, but I've no idea how you'd actually use a programming discord in the same way as you'd use SO, because if you make a post and come back an hour later surely it'll have vanished into the flow?
1. Post a question as a new user
2. It goes into Staging Grounds instead of the main site, so there's no way to get an answer
3. Watch as a handful of powerusers flag it and demand changes, with a combination of user-written and automated comments
4. Make some of the recommended changes
5. It gets closed anyway and never makes it to the main site
To me it seems like a forum that effectively sanctions the bullying of new users. I'd like to see Staging Grounds success statistics.