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Stack overflow still have users? These days it rarely shows up on my search results and when it does the answers are always outdated by several years.
But are they losing the first positions because they're losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?
I'd say the former.
Many queries don't find relevant questions, and the relevant questions are often not answered properly. I often find the exact same problem I'm having, but the answers are just a bunch of those CV padders that post completely irrelevant answers based on a buzzword they saw while skimming the question.
When I do find relevant answers, lately they're all so old that they no longer work, or rely on now deprecated functionality of a library or system.
Finding code snippets for interfacing with Azure through PowerShell is a crapshoot because Microsoft keeps deprecating different PowerShell modules for it.