• @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Stack Overflow was great when it appeared. The info was spread out incredibly wide and there was a lot of really shitty info as well. One place where it could accumulate and be rated was extremely helpful.

    But maybe it’s time to create a federated open source Stack Overflow.

    • @[email protected]
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      225 months ago

      They also committed to providing open dumps of their data to make it free to all. At the start, they were doing all the right things.

      • JackbyDev
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        5 months ago

        It all went downhill when they banned and slandered Monica.

          • JackbyDev
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            35 months ago

            Take a read here. It’s a better summary than I could manage.

            • Alex
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              35 months ago

              Oh, that’s pretty bad… thanks for the link

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      25 months ago

      I once managed to find a pretty good alternative, but then I forgot its name. It was a very chill community unlike what Stackoverflow was recently with it’s toxicity (properly formatted question police, people being offended for less popular languages, etc.).