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Stackoverflow Outage
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#22This is an ill formed question. Stackoverflow may be up or down. Please return later when you are able to determine exactly where your problem is and have read all the documentation on Unix, C and the internet.
Would have been funny if this post was marked duplicate of another post from years ago.
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#23Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don’t have to deal with the usual condescension.
I can see where you might get that sentiment, but where do you plan to go when new tech rolls around, the docs don't cut it and your LLM of choice hallucinates APIs that don't exist? This was always Stackoverflow's bread and butter, and people who only use it as noob search tend to miss that fact. SO can be a tough crowd, yes, but mostly it's people who didn't read the rules before posting who get burnt. That aside,…
The source code itself.
If an LLM can read the source of the library you’re trying to use - or examples of others using the library in GitHub, or official documentation - then there is less of a need for a fellow SOer to put the pieces together to debug issues and answer questions.
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#24Considering how many times a day I used to use StackOverflow, it's wild how long it has been since I last thought about it/visited. LLM's really scraped and dumped, sad.
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#25Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don’t have to deal with the usual condescension.
"Ah, the joys of mortgaging your future."
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#26I thought they're just shutting down because it wasn't worth running the servers anymore.
Last I heard they self hosted. Far as I understand it’s incredibly cheap for them to host. Especially since they’ve been completely cannibalized.
GCP and Cloudflare are mentioned on their status page.
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#27I thought they're just shutting down because it wasn't worth running the servers anymore.
They're strangely committed to serving up pointless jquery from a Google domain. I'm sure there's a revenue stream behind that.
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#28Considering how many times a day I used to use StackOverflow, it's wild how long it has been since I last thought about it/visited. LLM's really scraped and dumped, sad.
In theory this is a problem because LLMs don’t get any updates and are just a snapshot of old questions on SO, but in practice SO also gets no new questions because every question is closed (incorrectly)
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#29The crew that runs SO must be aware of the tone in this thread, right?
There always seems to be a strong consensus whenever SO is mentioned on HN, and it’s always very negative. Why don’t they change the moderation rules, if the supposed target audience is constantly frustrated with them?
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#30Stack Overflow is no longer relevant. Today, you can just ask Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT instead, and you don’t have to deal with the usual condescension.
My niche questions are never answered correctly by AI. I'm led down false rabbit holes. Stack overflow still provides much better answers for me overall.