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dw, you're not alone in this. Researchers like this are extremely impressive, but it seems like an absolutely massive misallocation of his brainpower. Sure, people can say the same…

Had the same experience with rif/res, and on X. If you go into algorithm-heavy sites with the intention of actively curating your personalized algorithm into your areas of interest…

Emotionally charged? No, just pointing out a statement of fact that conversing with you is like attempting to have a reasonable discussion with a brick wall. That's not emotional, …

I am fully aware that it's split off. My entire point of mentioning it was that even a bit of extra fun got excised from the site. >The issue is that code golf didn't fit well into…

Code golfing on SO was fun, too! I just looked it up, and "Note: This tag is currently blacklisted and can no longer be used." lmfao, what a braindead site, so glad I left years ag…

AI didn't necessarily kill SO because it was strictly better at giving technical answers (and it certainly wasn't better when GPTs initially burst onto the mass-appeal scene severa…

One might even say that Joel and Jeff created their very own puts on shades coding horror yeaaahhhh with SO, and it is indeed ironic that them building Discourse has created far be…

hahaha, I almost forgot about that! "stop talking about edge cases and other things pertinent to this topic in comments about this topic!! reeeeeeeee!!!!"

>StackOverflow was a pub where programmers had fun while learning programming. The product of that fun was valuable. I really like this description. I and others here who are talki…

Fellow OG! And it's been happening on HN since the mid-2010s, too. Moderation went out of control everywhere, but at least this site isn't branded as some strictly technical site. …

>this whole chain-of-interaction is a wonderful reminder of why I left SO They've become parodies of themselves to such an extent that this topic should be a new sterling example o…

Exactly... I'm getting a laugh out of this thread because it's so easy to spot the power-trippers who are enraged at how their fiefdom is rapidly going extinct.

He's demonstrating in real-time to other contributors here why SO is toast hahaha The feeling you are getting when talking to that arrogant brick wall was the prototypical SO user …

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>Do you not realize how the proposal must sound to someone who is not already in the SO in-group? The fact that you even have to point this out to them, and how they still don't un…

>I'd long heard of abusive moderation but... experiencing it first hand is something else. Anecdote of one, but I know I'm never going to ask there again. And it was a real gut pun…

>it just felt kinda shitty to those of us who spent more time answering, when we actually needed to ask one on a topic we were lacking in. (Speaking as someone who never moderated)…

Friend in my group was in the public beta back in '08. We all ended up signing up by the end of '09. I used it off-and-on over the years (have some questions and replies with hundr…

Cool! Thank you for the replies! And best of luck!

Ah, makes sense, good points! I keep focusing so much on lightweight for the end user out of the box, and Astro still has been rather "lightweight" serverside for me (but good poin…

Why Hugo over Astro for something lightweight? Or why not even bashblog? Seems like a strange choice to go with Hugo if he's aiming for lightweight and speed.

>due to lack of development ??? https://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/commits/ma...

>Feels a bit like switching to TempleOS. That's... not a bad thing, though? Terry was an extremely competent engineer and programmer who designed his software to be as user-friendl…

fucking retards still have their status page set to "We're all good!" haha, nothing ever changes

Are you incapable of reading, or what?