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Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

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[–] [email protected] 226 points 6 months ago (12 children)

People cheering on SOs demise don't realize what we're losing.

Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass. Asking the same question over and over, hoping somone is around to help.

It sucks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass.

It sucks but can you blame them? It's a natural response when people see that the old method (public posting and indexing) is being corrupted and grows increasingly irrelevant.

We're going to see more and more knowledge becoming insular and/or gated behind manual curation.

This doesn't necessarily have to mean Discord, can be private forums of any kind but private nonetheless. Discord may be the wrong tool but the problem it's being applied to is real.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I never understood the move to synchronous communication for asynchronous questions. The ephemeral nature of discord is really a PITA. It’s like using IRC for a FAQ.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It makes sense if the issues being discussed are time-sensitive. Sometimes people need a solution now, not to open a bug report and hope that it will get a response an unspecified amount of time later.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago

Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.

It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not to mention the people answering the questions are liable to just start accusing you of being an idiot if you make any less progress with their solution than "it's been fixed so hard that it gained five new functions I didn't even write into it!" I wrote a 3Js project once and ISTG the people on that discord had all the patience of a three year old who suddenly has to go to the bathroom the red second you've merged onto the highway.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pretty soon search engines won't be able to return anything anymore. At which point we might be looking for communities where live people can help with our issue. And if that happens Discord won't look that out of place anymore.

If you can go somewhere and have your problem solved do you really care that some schmuck later won't be able to find the solution written somewhere and will have to go through the same process?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You're forgetting about the schmuck on the other end of that equation that has to answer the same question a thousand times over.