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- CodeCompostPeople may be dismissive of Serverfault and the other sites but pretty much all LLMs are trained on them.
- ewwhite17 years and 202,000 internet points -https://stackexchange.com/leagues/2/alltime/serverfaultI contributed heavily to that site and spent the meat of my IT career posting about my gained experience. It helped me get jobs, and opened all sorts of consulting opportunities. I used to proudly point at that body of work because Stack Exchange and ServerFault were universally known in the industry.It is wild knowing the LLMs were trained on these contributions. And today, I encounter IT professionals who confidently say, "I've never used anything from that site"
- kazinatorThe stackexchange sites are too fragmented into too many narrow topics for the traffic. They should consider merging.E.g. Network Engineering and Server Fault could easily be one thing. Just ignore the questions you're not into about problems with switches, if application services are more your thing. Throw in Super User also: "TechExchange".
- adamorsHow is this page so bad to read on mobile?
- LercI guess that's a problem with content provided by karma farmers. When they decide to farm something else (gith7b stars now?) the flow stops. I think there also might be a tendancy for the culture to chase away people providing information purely so that others have access to it.While the use of Chatbots has diminished the utility of using the service as a direct interface, the information that Chatbots provide sourced some of that from here. There is possibly now a need for a new type repository of queries and answers in a different form. Perhaps people can have a skill on their Chatbots that gets them to post solutions into a wiki for issues that people have actually had that were solved by lengthy investigation.
- aliljetThere's something here that I can't put my finger on. Sites like ServerFault (and the rest of the trilogy in tfa) were places where people like the author literally, and pretty silently dramatically improved my life. I owe such a great debt to what looks like the end of the end for these places. A sad moment where the machines just sliced everything up and took over.
- jauntywundrkindThanks for all the fish. Thanks for the last stories, cheers.And: nice domain name.
- OutOfHereI think the next leap for StackExchange is https://agents.stackoverflow.com/ for exclusive use by AI. It holds great potential for accelerated knowledge discovery.Point your harness to:https://agents.stackoverflow.com/skill.mdhttps://agents.stackoverflow.com/llms.txt
- BrandoElFollitoI was happily active on the SE network, in several sites, for 15 or so years. Without any special efforts I accumulated some 500k internet points. Cool.And then something changed. Ego trips. Questions immediately downvoted. An extremely, psychotic Meta site.I get it that plenty of questions are low quality. But for fuck's sake - why not just having a second look at high rep questions, which are more likely to be well rounded ? This is how you lose your more enthusiastic members.Within SO some groups were great and others (Go, I am looking at you) were elitist cliques.And then there are the niche sites: cooking, LaTeX, ... Welcoming, happy questions and relevant answers. These are the ones I will miss a lot.
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