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[–] [email protected] 130 points 6 months ago (11 children)

In desperation you click the link to the old docs, change the version to the latest version and pray you don't get a 404

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Been there. Done that. FML on searching for programming help some days. Versioning is a nightmare as the way you "used" to do things is no longer relevant and the rest of the results are some asshole saying it is a duplicate question that was answered 10 years ago...that is no longer fucking relevant!

Sorry. Yesterday sucked. I hope today is less frustration and more things working like they are supposed to.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As someone who is trying to teach themselves a few new things this year by diving to projects using them... I seriously, seriously feel you. It honestly makes me question whether I should just abandon each project I start, both professional and personal.

All the relevant hits are from years and/or 2+ versions of whatever ago or forum posts with dead links to an alleged solution.

I feel like in the past I could just dive into something and search my way through it. Now I feel like that era is over and I question whether it's me, my niche project idea, the disappearing community, or just the search engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The answer to your question is that all the info is in chat apps now

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