Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
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.
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.
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.
Once upon a time, they stepped forth from the forests of IRC, but back into those dark woods they then one day marched.
Discord is straight up unwelcome on corporate networks.
I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.
So four months til GPT starts calling everyone “kitten”
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I support the take over. People thinking that they can pick and choose who makes money and how are fooling themselves. The developer who wants all his IP protected so he can make money is upset that a larger entity is also making money is honestly tough fucking shit. Either go back to the origins of the internet napster days or shut the fuck up and live with what we created. There isn’t any middle ground. Its only going to get worse unless you make this place hostile to people building walls and stealing all the data for themselves.
I feel so bad for the long term contributors :/
The only good thing I could think off, is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?
Or something similar, to bring back real human interaction…
If this wasn’t enough, This will probably raise war against corporated AI.
And they smell bad too!
What?
It’s an old, bad, joke on the two definitions of revolting.
I think it would’ve been funny if the title was “StackOverflow contributors are revolting” and the comment was “a little more than usual.”
But hey, gotta get whatever amount of humor in while you can.
Smelly neeerds
Looks like downvoters don’t get the joke. I first seen it on the cover of Horrible History.
I hate 2024
Time to edit all my answers :)
I did on Friday and within 5 mins they suspended me and reverted them all. I knew they would so I didn’t care - I just did it so they’d see as many unhappy users as possible.
I then deleted my account of over 10 years with over 50k reputation. Fuck stackoverflow.
Same reason for me. Take some of their time and say fuck you to them. But I will do crippling edits by single characters in one month time. I have time.
I’d assume they would provide a backup from before the announcement for the training.
I don’t understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don’t have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.
Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren’t stuck using reddit.
Yeah I don’t get this either. As long as they keep the main SO sites up and available, why should anyone care if they train AI on it? Deleting or defacing content is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
God forbid someone get a JavaScript snippet that uses var instead of let or const.
Me over here still using none of them, just straight raw-dogging my variables
Total power move. If they’re global, your colleagues will know you’re the Beyonce of the band and can do whatever you want.
time for users to shred their comments and posts
Okay but why? It’s not like it’s personal Data or something. I don’t get why people are mad ._.
EDIT: Ofcourse you can downvote me but I’d really like an answer, tho. The article is not very clear about this.
Irc: I ain’t dead yet bitch! Discord is fucking awful for dev and search.
Do people still use stack overflow? I feel like their days are numbered.
Well, when good documentation is available it isn’t necessary but good documentation is not always available. And it can still be helpful with niche issues 🤷
PowerShell Microsoft Graph Module. Most of the official doc pages have at least one section of “TODO” in them.
After they officially deprecated the previous modules with similar functionality.
I mean, good documentation + LLM = Stack overflow is 100% obsolete
Why else would they speed run enshitification?
