Stackoverflow Outage
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Stackoverflow Outage
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#2Didn't notice, as Claude is still up.
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#3Stack 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.
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#4Status updates for stackoverflow are like: hey look at me, I'm still here.
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#5I thought they're just shutting down because it wasn't worth running the servers anymore.
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#6This 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.
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#7Stack 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.
How much of that LLM output is the result of adding SO’s content to the pot?
And if usage declines, what will be feed future LLMs with?
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#8SO has had an effective outage for years now. Put up a question, get smacked with "it's a duplicate" of an old, no-longer-relevant question, mods don't correct it because the culture is gatekeeping, now you have a dead Q&A site.
With the additional problem that someone invented a way to take your question pages and tailor them to the exact needs of a particular user.
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#9Stack 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, it still has a very high concentration of experts that you'll struggle to find anywhere else.
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#10I 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.