Questions people really asked, and what actually worked
Threads read for their resolution — the accepted answer rather than the longest argument.
- where they were asked declared
- 6
- fields per record
- 3
- per record
- 3.9 KB
How it divides
1 dimension · press a band to read it- Stackoverflow10,199 · 53.1%
- Hackernews7,868 · 41.0%
- Askubuntu192 · 1.0%
- Superuser192 · 1.0%
- Dba190 · 1.0%
- Remaining 3 values570 · 3.0%
10,199 threads are filed under Stackoverflow — 53.1% of those that declare it.
19,211 of 25,374 declared · 75.7%. The rest carry no value for this field, so these shares are of the declared set and do not add up to the collection.
What you can do with it
Skip to what resolved it — The accepted answer leads, which is rarely the longest reply.
Match the error, not the words — Find the thread that is genuinely the same problem.
Keep the version attached — A fix from an older release is recognisable as one.
See whether it is still current — Advice ages; the date travels with the thread.
Filed to answer
Has anyone hit this exact error message, and what fixed it?
Does the accepted fix still apply to the version I am running?
What did the people who solved this actually change, as opposed to what they tried?
Is this advice current, or is it three major releases out of date?
Written to
- cadence
- Continuously
- last write
- 1 Jan 1970, 00:00 UTC
- added
- 257 in the last day
A new record is a newly published thread. A revision replaces the text on the record that already exists rather than adding a second one, so the count does not double.
Where it stops
It is people, not documentation. An accepted answer is what worked for someone, not what a maintainer says is correct.
Threads age badly. The date and version are kept precisely because a confident old answer is the most dangerous kind.
Field reference
3 fields per record- Accepted answer
- Software version the fix applied to
- Thread date