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.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 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.

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Multiple times I have searched for a question and found a single SO answer from years back that was my own, with no replies.

I hope something nice happens to you today :)

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I lucked out. Success at last! Now I can continue to code furiously doing things I know how to do.