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Stack Overflow

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Stack Overflow, part of Stack Exchange, is a free, community-driven, reputation-based Q & A site for computer programmers. No membership is required to ask questions or provide answers to questions by others.

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  • US flagUnited States

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  2.  Community-based
  3.  Knowledge base
  4.  Point System
  5.  Keyword Research

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Comment summary: Stack Overflow is highly regarded for its vast, detailed repository of programming information. However, frequent criticisms include a challenging community environment where newcomers often experience downvoting and question closure. While some users praise the platform for its no-nonsense, comprehensive answers akin to a scholarly community, others find the moderation strict and unwelcoming, making it difficult to get new queries addressed.
Top Positive Comment
Kagerjay
Jul 7, 2017
2

need an answer to something in computerscience? stackoverflow

also reddit.com is helpful

quora if you want biased answers

Top Negative Comment
Aluenvey
Jun 17, 2015
11

This website focuses more on policing how you ask the question, rather than actually taking the time to answer your specific problem. I asked an extremely specific question about variables resetting, and how many if/else statements I need.

Find somewhere else to get your answers.

RemovedUser
Dec 13, 2023
0

I don't like Stack Overflow. My questions never get answered, and overall I don't find much questions answered at all.

yap241986
Sep 5, 2022
1

I didn't like StackOverflow, I hate it! they put so many downvotes and if you are a person learning to use it or to programming you will be blocked because you receive too many downvotes the only persons that receive upvotes are the person that joined to StackOverflow 10 years ago!

RemovedUser
Jan 4, 2022
3

Terrible. Have a question you want answered? Well too bad! Get downvoted!

jabbathemutt
Dec 9, 2020
0

So many valuable explanations of solutions to common problems. I literally use it every day

iamnoonez
Dec 1, 2019
3

If you want to be troll fodder for the moderators and such, go there. Some stuff is weak code seeded by hackers. If you ask a question that doesn't have a text book answer, it gets down voted. It used to be a nice site till the trolls took over as moderators, and down vote or delete questions.

This site tries to cater to the programming community, but its a gimmick to try to sell you "advice" that can be obtained free.

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What is Stack Overflow?

Stack Overflow, part of Stack Exchange icon Stack Exchange, is a free, community-driven, reputation-based Q & A site for computer programmers. No membership is required to ask questions or provide answers to questions by others. Registered users collect 'karma' by participating, and can subsequently up- or down-vote answers by other users, leave comments and edit content in a wiki-style fashion.

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    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
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    Subscription ranging between $5 and $17 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.7 (13 ratings)
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Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about Stack Overflow, and it has gotten 464 likes

Stack Overflow was added to AlternativeTo by dewmsolo on Apr 9, 2010 and this page was last updated Feb 15, 2025. Stack Overflow is sometimes referred to as StackOverflow.