Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
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So sorry to hear this. My thoughts to everyone, it is a very difficult day.
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#3If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed?
Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
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#4If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
Nothing is dying. Our data dumps are live at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange as they've always been.
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#6If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
I don't know, but you guys remember the dark times before SO?...omg.
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#7If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
I don't know, but you guys remember the dark times before SO?...omg.
bruh, put a trigger warning before bringing that up! faints
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#8If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
Nothing is dying. Our data dumps are live at https://archive.org/details/stackexchange as they've always been.
I had no idea this existed. This is awesome. Thanks for the link.
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#9If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
It's not dying, I think their recent expansions in job/talent advertising isn't paying off as they originally thought.
Re: Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%
#10If SO and its related network sites die, what's going to happen to the millions of questions and answers their users contributed? Is anyone archiving them and making the archives available in any useful way?
I don't know, but you guys remember the dark times before SO?...omg.
Yes. I was there. There wasn't even a google. I would stumble along on deja.com in the late 90s until it died a slow painful death and got scooped up by Google [1]
[1] Source: [2002] https://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-remaining-deja-com-bus...