{"id":9312,"date":"2016-09-29T14:43:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=9312"},"modified":"2016-09-29T14:43:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T12:43:49","slug":"25000-curl-questions-on-stackoverflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2016\/09\/29\/25000-curl-questions-on-stackoverflow\/","title":{"rendered":"25,000 curl questions on stackoverflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"stackoverflow-logo\"<\/a>Over time, I’ve reluctantly come to terms with the fact that a lot of questions and answers about curl<\/a> is not done on the mailing lists<\/a> we have setup in the project itself.<\/p>\n

A primary such external site with curl related questions<\/a> is of course stackoverflow<\/a> – hardly news to programmers of today. The questions tagged with curl is of course only a very tiny fraction of the vast amount of questions and answers that accumulate on that busy site.<\/p>\n

The pile of questions tagged with curl<\/a> on stackoverflow has just surpassed the staggering number of 25,000<\/strong>. Of course, these questions involve persons who ask about particular curl behaviors (and a large portion is about PHP\/CURL) but there’s also a significant amount of tags for questions where curl is only used to do something and that other something is actually what the question is about. And ‘libcurl’ is used as a separate tag and is often used independently of the ‘curl’ one. libcurl is tagged<\/a> on almost 2,000 questions.<\/p>\n

\"curl-symbol\"<\/a>But still. 25,000 questions. Wow.<\/p>\n

I visit that site every so often and answer to some questions<\/a> but I often end up feeling a great “distance” between me and questions there, and I have a hard time to bridge that gap. Also, stackoverflow<\/a> the site and the format isn’t really suitable for debugging or solving problems within curl so I often end up trying to get the user move over to file an issue on curl’s github page or discuss the curl problem on a mailing list instead. Forums more suitable for plenty of back-and-forth before the solution or fix is figured out.<\/p>\n

Now, any bets for how long it takes until we reach 100K questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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