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I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
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All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Its only 25GB!? I could have this all in Elasticsearch locally!
Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
I think Stack Overflow has been getting worse and worse in recent years. Their community is outright hostile to active discussion. Only directly answerable questions are tolerated. Microsoft is (as always) a few years late to the party.
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All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Its only 25GB!? I could have this all in Elasticsearch locally!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Its only 25GB!? I could have this all in Elasticsearch locally!
Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
I think Stack Overflow has been getting worse and worse in recent years. Their community is outright hostile to active discussion. Only directly answerable questions are tolerated. Microsoft is (as always) a few years late to the party.
Although I do agree I've noticed a change in community tone and tolerance that i don't like either; I think that's just the nature of it though, of any community. I don't know that it HAS to be that way, but that seems to be the default behavior.
I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Note that I've never been in charge of a large product like this, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think Stack Overflow has been getting worse and worse in recent years. Their community is outright hostile to active discussion. Only directly answerable questions are tolerated. Microsoft is (as always) a few years late to the party.
I find the different websites they have very confusing. I would use it a lot more if it was a more integrated experience.
If the sites were merged, this sense of community and ownership would be lost. This is why each site is separate, with a style somewhat picked/influenced by the site's community, with ads chosen by the community, and rules drawn up by the community. Stack Exchange is the sum of many small (and a few big) communities, not one big one.
The answer is attached to the bottom (full length, no see more or anything) of the question and is then repeated again. Threaded comments are also very poorly formatted, and they hit a limit pretty soon from what I've seen.