I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It’s really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I’d rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.
Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.
And no, I can’t just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.
SO has a pretty great standard for communication. I known it can be frustrating if you don’t know the rules at first, but if one asks a clear question, states what they have attempted, and provides a minimal reproducible example, with code as text not an image, the support is pretty damned good.
The vpn block is probably trying to diminish what they can of bot scraping, to salvage what’s left of their husk of relevance.