Technology

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.

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

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.

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.

It won't. Some people will scream bloody murder, most people will ignore it.

SO was in decline anyway. Most answers you'll find are several years old and outdated, because some idiot thought the new ones are duplicates.

So now a few people will leave, the spamming idiots will keep spamming the platform with low effort nonsensical answers and its relevance will dwindle just a bit faster.

Look at Reddit. Last year there was a huge outrage and today it's pretty much the same as before.

Most people don't care. Most people feel so powerless, that they'll accept every privacy scandal, every exploitive business strategy, every sellout of their platform.

The only good thing I could think off, is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?

I've read of someone making an alternative to stackexchange federated. ~~Let me lookup for it and add a link here.~~

Here it is:
https://lemmy.ml/post/15471686

Do you mean federated? And what would federation solve?

The only way you're separating humans from LLM will be by asking for government ID but that would eliminate anonymity. And even so people could sneak in LLMs under their credentials.

is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?

God I would love that. But as simple as the UI is, it would be some real work.

Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.

HaltAndCatchFire

This title doesn't mention it, but it was reported earlier that users editing their past posts against this move get banned for it.

I’m pretty sure they keep the revision history, so there’s no point in it

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.