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Discussion on: How is this Website differ from StackOverflow?

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Bob van Hoove • Edited
  • Dev.to shows no badges or scores next to your avatar. We're all just names with an avatar and equal in that sense

  • Dev.to is friendly and supportive. Stack Overflow can go either way.

  • Dev.to does articles mostly whereas Stack Overflow has the focus on questions.

  • Dev.to has no downvoting mechanism. Stack Overflow does.

  • Dev.to is better looking, which ofcourse is totally subjective but it's way less noisy to me.

Some of these points I think refer to the same core philosophy.

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Bob van Hoove

I might add that mostly I'm comparing the two on what they have in common: being a community website.

I should also say I love Stack Overflow for the invaluable information it offers. It's just that I feel apprehensive to contribute whereas over here it comes naturally.