On: Stack Overflow Culture

[sampo]

If one operates outside of the mainstream, then SO still works like in the "good old days". Mainstream and the main volume of action is about the relatively basic questions about the popular programming languages and platforms.

But if one asks or answers questions about, for example, more advanced features of git, more advanced algorithms, numerical mathematics, GIS, anything that is not interesting to "the masses", then you still get genuine helpful answers, but you might have to wait hours or days, and there will not be a large number of answers.

[bhaak → sampo]

I once answered a question that was 4 years old.

Although still relevant as I ran into the same problem as the OP but as nobody else answered I had to come up with an answer myself.