ExcelForum.com vs StackOverflow.com

I have found a lot of the best answers to my Excel problems from a google search which ended up in a post somewhere in StackOverflow.com. My questions tended to be at a fairly advanced theoretical Excel / VBA level and not always a specific “get this code to work please” or “give me a code to do this please” type of problem. I get the feeling these last two types of question would not go down at all well at StackOverflow.com: Like Jerry said: there the Q must usually demonstrate notable effort and understanding in the original question, clear evidence the OP is working themselves on the issue. We have no such requirement here, and we pay the price for it at times.
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The last couple of months I was on a bit of a “Excel Forum Crawl” ( Like a Pub Crawl ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pub_crawl ) but longer, visiting most Forums and Blog sites having anything to do with Excel , and answering or commenting on some moderately advanced things. It had the same effect on my brain as few Beers sometimes, Lol... )........

Originally Posted by xladept

But it's pretty easy to search this site

...I agree with that, ExcelForum and similar organised sites are easy to search: On my “Crawl”, I got the jist of navigating around most Forums and Blog sites. StackOverflow.com was the exception. I don’t know why , but I just can’t navigate around, or understand the structure at StackOverflow.com.
It lacks for me, ( or I may be I just have not found it ), a clear overview page like
https://www.excelforum.com/
http://www.eileenslounge.com/index.p...78ff2250241e45
https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/forum.php
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/forum.php
etc..

Whenever I posted at StackOverflow.com, I usually got told off for posting wrongly, or after posting I totally lost where I had posted, and could find any post list. I ended up having to navigate through my user posts. For some reason my password was frequently not recognised and I ended up having to re register each time.

Since the recent improvements, the ExcelForum format feels very comfortable. ( It seems some members are drifting back )
But like most things, I guess it is a case largely of what you get used to.
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Originally Posted by AB33

.... has been my first source of information regarding any topic on programming and the site comes top on Google search. ....

I can agree with that: Certainly on a google search for an answer, StackOverflow.com has often come up tops for me.

Alan