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What are the issues with them in 2024? Like actual examples.

I don't do webdev but the answers never seemed completely wrong whenever I had to look something up and I know I've read praise in recent years about how they completely revamped and the old "wrong?" Information was fixed. I know some people like to recommend other docs over them but that's not saying they're wrong or bad, just not as good.




That's just the thing. You don't know if it was fixed or not, so you really can't trust the information given.

Their old PHP database material used to be utterly rife with SQL injection. Perhaps they've fixed some of that, but a single injection bug can ruin your day, so it's not something you can take as casually as they seem to.


It's really hard to fix a damaged reputation. And for a long time, the large majority of their information was horrible. It's going to take a rather long time for people to stop completely blacklisting them.


Why should we?

If you poison the well long enough, nobody's going to drink from it regardless of whether or not you can test the water and prove that it's clean.


Yeah, like sourceforge.

I just googled them and the top sub-result is for "AutoClicker download" which, I assume, is intended for click fraud. Luckily "Forge Auto Clicker comes with no ads or malware making an amazing user experience!"


It's not "wrong", it just has an awful signal/noise ratio.


Usually the answers were "right" in that they worked but also wrong in that they had issues or were otherwise less-than-ideal.

But I haven't used them in over a decade so lolidk




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