<p dir="auto">The quality of <code class="notranslate">three.js</code> tagged questions on SO is horrible. Each question that makes sense and is properly formatted is followed by 20 that are just incomprehensible, RTFM, <code class="notranslate">i've no idea wtf im doing</code> sort of thing. At one point I started getting frustrated, but for some reason, I can't stop looking at them. I'm under the impression that some experts who used to frequent SO have stopped doing so.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm still learning how SO works, so I posted this, and got some interesting information, but i'm not sure what to make out of it:<br>
<a href="https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357466/three-js-tag-has-really-bad-questions" rel="nofollow">https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357466/three-js-tag-has-really-bad-questions</a></p>
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<li>40% overall unanswered questions seem to be really bad, average is 29%, good is 10-15%. Sounds like it's <strong>worse than one of the two worst tags,</strong> almost as bad as the other.</li>
<li>three.js seems to end up in the same spot as categories that attract many non-programmer types <code class="notranslate">3D graphics attracts a lot of beginners who neither have the math skills nor the programming skills to handle these APIs.</code></li>
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<p dir="auto">Since people do get referred to SO from here:<br>
<code class="notranslate">If you need help, please use [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/three.js).</code></p>
<p dir="auto">I thought i'd share this.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'm also under the impression that a few years ago, there were more good quality questions overall. I've even seen links to West Langley's answers on SO as a three learning reference, but it looks like those are coming in less frequently.</p>
<p dir="auto">I've heard that the resources and tutorials can be quite out of date. Three moves quite quick, and often has major overhauls (?), which would explain this. Maybe having more official tutorials that have to be fixed and working the same way examples do could address this?</p>
<p dir="auto">Maybe some strategy and effort could be put to clean up SO's [three.js] tag. Perhaps rather than sending people to SO, we could send them to the docs, and possibly some three agnostic literature on graphics, webgl, math etc.</p>
<p dir="auto">Also might be worth having a discussion on who uses three, and how. It feels that all the shortcuts that three offers work while someone is copy pasting the code, as soon as some modification occurs, things start breaking up.</p>
<p dir="auto">The current situation could be good for the experts though. The more people dive into projects thinking it will be easy but get stuck, the more consultancy gigs should come, maybe i just need to jump on that boat.</p>
<p dir="auto">The <code class="notranslate">shading</code> property has been removed from <code class="notranslate">MeshLambertMaterial</code>, it is only rendered the <code class="notranslate">SmoothShading</code> way.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is it the desired effect ? Phong looks heavier to get this result.</p>