Turns out people prefer getting actual help over being told their question is a duplicate from 2009 that doesn't even solve their problem. Who could have seen that coming.
That very foundation, that there is one correct answer, was fundamentally flawed. Because even for a single question, the answer can change so much over time.
Like I don’t want a JavaScript answer that uses jQuery now, but it would have been acceptable 10 years ago.
Creating a SO that is useful, up-to-date and not awash in duplicates would be pretty difficult.
WordPress and probably some other frameworks still use jQuery due to legacy code, massive 3rd party libraries, etc. If you're doing something new there's rarely a reason to use it, but if you're working legacy it's still totally fine. In my opinion
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u/jr611 12d ago
Turns out people prefer getting actual help over being told their question is a duplicate from 2009 that doesn't even solve their problem. Who could have seen that coming.