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hotelsachertoday at 3:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

Still, it shows how incredibly broken the StackOverflow system is. It's completely normal for older answers to become outdated, but they still act like the old answers are laws of nature.


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BeetleBtoday at 4:14 PM

I think this is harsh criticism. It's because not many people use SO any more.

One of SO's selling points was that outdated answers get replaced with the more modern, better ones - and it worked for many, many years.

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layer8today at 4:48 PM

At least the answer is there. When asking ChatGPT (Plus) the same question, it only suggests the old ways.

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