Communities like Stackoverflow come and go. We have a very refined tool in SO, but the strength is always in the community.
You can find very strong developers, still, idling in IRC. I've had many a great question/answer session with the very inventors of some languages I'm interested in, just because they're on IRC.
Get to know the mailing-lists for the languages/programming subjects you're interested in. Stackoverflow is a website; the Internet is composed of much more than web sites. If you have a connection and organizing system that can handle e-mail, beyond gmail and so, you can even build yourself a veritable Treasure-trove of details about current/modern technologies .. by lurking on the -lists. Get your own offline archives for the tech-/topic you're interested in, and you can then probably go and cabin-in-the-woods/off-grid program your next major release ..
Also, do not discount the value of an evening spent exploring your local USENET access. Seriously. USENET still lives. Your ISP may not know that, though ..
You can find very strong developers, still, idling in IRC. I've had many a great question/answer session with the very inventors of some languages I'm interested in, just because they're on IRC.
Get to know the mailing-lists for the languages/programming subjects you're interested in. Stackoverflow is a website; the Internet is composed of much more than web sites. If you have a connection and organizing system that can handle e-mail, beyond gmail and so, you can even build yourself a veritable Treasure-trove of details about current/modern technologies .. by lurking on the -lists. Get your own offline archives for the tech-/topic you're interested in, and you can then probably go and cabin-in-the-woods/off-grid program your next major release ..
Also, do not discount the value of an evening spent exploring your local USENET access. Seriously. USENET still lives. Your ISP may not know that, though ..