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My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF

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123 points eterm | 1 comments | 08 May 25 12:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eterm ◴[08 May 25 12:11 UTC] No.43925356[source]▶
A post in which I try to rubber-duck a CoreWCF issue I've been having, because stackoverflow no longer seems suitable for asking questions about programming issues.

Screaming into the void of the blogosphere is catharsis for getting my SO question closed.

And because I know you're all nosy, the SO question is here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79605462/high-cpu-usage-... . Please feel free to point out more ways in which I screwed up asking my SO question.

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matsemann ◴[08 May 25 12:58 UTC] No.43925669[source]▶
Honestly, I agree with it not being a good fit for a Q&A site. It's a debugging problem, probably needing a discussion, and might even not be of any use to others being that "high cpu" is kinda vague. Seems better suited for a bug report / issue tracker of the relevant library.
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1. kristianp ◴[08 May 25 23:23 UTC] No.43932335[source]▶
Stackoverflow is basically a site to help people with programming problems. That includes debugging a problem. I think it's sad that many types of question are not considered suitable for the site. The question was closed as "Not suitable for this site", whatever that means.

Tangentially, one thing I think StackOverflow misses in its policy is in not allowing questions that ask for help to evaluate libraries and products in the developer space. There are many questions on SO where someone has asked what is the best library for X, and the question is closed due to site policy, but I think a discussion of what library is best for a use case is a very useful thing to have on SO. The answer to the question can change over time, and multiple alternative solutions can be presented. This is the kind of thing that Reddit has taken over for many different product recommendations, but reddit answers are just comments, they don't have the UI of SO's for commenting on questions and answers.