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And this is at least the 4th or 5th time within 10 days that either the website is down or performance is badly degraded. So bad for a website that is basically the go-to resource where IT professionals get their answers. So bad that the whole platform is closed-source, so we can't even spin multiple instances. The main resource used by developers and sysadmins around the world is locked and centralized, and when tha…
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It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
https://www.rickcarlino.com/2020/keeping-an-offline-copy-of-... not so sure about that
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It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
IMO it would be more interesting to not use their code and build some kind of specialized search service. One that learns to rank results from user metrics and feedback?
i am confused though. how do you think SO currently works? Both questions and answers are already ranked via user metrics (individual upvotes and historical upvotes) and feedback (comments)?
SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data available at archive.org - Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof. I think about LinkedIn, Github, ... the other large platforms we use for work, and SE is the only one that hasn't gone downhill. No, I don't want them to open source the…
The cookie dialog being different on every site is infuriating if you’re not logged in.
My first option was a full copy of stackoverflow. No joke.
Now, I'm reading this 5 hours letter and everything is ok, but what a wonderful site.
SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data available at archive.org - Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof. I think about LinkedIn, Github, ... the other large platforms we use for work, and SE is the only one that hasn't gone downhill. No, I don't want them to open source the…
it is only bad they are having some many outages these days. I am not complaining for me. but it means something is happening there
SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data available at archive.org - Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof. I think about LinkedIn, Github, ... the other large platforms we use for work, and SE is the only one that hasn't gone downhill. No, I don't want them to open source the…
> "Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof." Owned by a VC firm, isn't it? https://www.forbes.com/sites/vijaygurbaxani/2021/06/08/the-1... after https://vcnewsdaily.com/stack-overflow/venture-capital-fundi...
SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data available at archive.org - Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof. I think about LinkedIn, Github, ... the other large platforms we use for work, and SE is the only one that hasn't gone downhill. No, I don't want them to open source the…