The headline is a lie. Developers will be fine. One company will lose users. And rightly so.
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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They don't allow me to create an account because email restriction, VPN/IP restriction...
If they don't want content, that's their choice
Every time I go to SO I have to deal with CloudFlare checks or captchas. I'm not genuinely not sure why, but it has kept me from clicking SO links from search engines first. Not even using a VPN. Kind of odd.
I’m sure they have all the heuristics in Cloudflare cranked up due to all programming model training aggressively digesting their content. Can’t blame them, honestly.
Wow amazing stuff
so the ai kills off all its food sources and then what
MSDN subscription
Either Butlerian Jihad or Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou.
Ha. I remember I used my points to create a bounty for something I kind of saw as broken with Windows but that eventually expired or something and after that, never looked back. Whole thing doesn't make sense. Why make a bounty possible if it can just expire. Nobody answered the question... and I couldn't accrue points to do it again in a reasonable manner so go figure...
Sure is bullshit. I now and then could have answered a question i am an expert in. But i never had an account and wouldn't have had the points to do it, because "popular question" and whatnot.
they're gonna rebrand to ai first or turn it into an experts-exchange aren't they?
It does feel like they're going that way. But that's okay. Everyone needs an Expert Sex Change every now and then.
"Which is bad news for developers"
Nah, we've been through lots of iterations of community for developers, irc, maillists, forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most of my complex questions go through specific discord communities now. I'm not trying to spend a year editing a single post because some swamp ass weanie on stackoverflow has his nose covered in rule dust.
Yes ai has changed the game a bit, but it is not removing community, it's mostly just cutting down on the question duplication
My most recent foray into a new technology was working with vulkan in rust on a mac, stackoverflow is useless compared to the vulkan discord.
fuck discord. this is the only thing I want to add to the other 2 responses
and mind me, matrix wouldn't be that much better in that regard. better, but still bad, because it's a bad format for this.
Down side of discord is huge. It's not searchable to start with / its not index. Often it's not even public information.
It's like storting data on your hard drive/ssd. It's the worst way to share knowledge.
RIP permanence and discoverability
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