Who the hell wants whatever the alternative to stack overflow is?? I mean, what would that even be? Misleading Quora questions? Expertsexchange pages that give wrong answers and don't let you view it without an account? Microsoft help forums where nobody even answers the question and the thread is just people complaining about the lack of answers? Old school forums where denver_coder12 just replies to his own question with "I fixed it"?
I'm doing my part by redacting and removing all my reddit comments from the past 12 years. Reddit doesn't deserve the traffic they get from search engines, if they don't respect their users.
Seriously. I got so used to just tagging "reddit" at the end of a search to find recommendations, niche content, etc. It's the thing I miss most. Not sure how we replicate something like that with these new sites. Maybe time will set it straight.
If you haven't tried out Marginalia search engine, check it out. At least in my experience, it was like, "Holy shit, THIS is what search engines used to be like!"
I was surprised to hear people saying they get answers from reddit. I've never considered it a great source, for my work usually a couple solid steps below stack overflow. It was more useful as a pure link aggregator.