I often feel like every question has been asked and answered already.
I still like SO
What are the odds the classic "expertsexchange" ends up out lasting stack exchange?
It's all already been used to train AI at this point.
It's not that developers are switching to AI tools it's that stack overflow is awful and has been for a long time. The AI tools are simply providing a better alternative, which really demonstrates how awful stack overflow is because the AI tools are not that good.
Ironic, they're being closed as duplicate.
I think a lot of good information is being scrubbed or controlled and, very soon, what was once free, you will be charged for.
Worrying that forums will dissappear too.
The only answer you'll get are SKUM sponsored bullshit with embedded ads.
Remember before they destroyed the internet? Good times.
I'm happy to see a bit of a renaissance of forums in the last few years. Quite a few open source projects now run forums built on the Discourse engine (open-source, can be self-hosted for free). I was kinda sceptical at first, they look so different from the BBCode forums I was used to, but over time came to appreciate the features that drag the forum format into the 21st century.
I hope an increasing number of projects come to realise the drawbacks of Discord, namely that you keep years' worth of information on someone else's centralised platform, and it's very difficult to find past information even for members of the server, and impossible from the outside. I look at a handful of Discord channels daily, but had to mute some because users keep asking the same questions every two days...
I've posted questions, but I don't usually need to because someone else has posted it before. this is probably the reason that AI is so good at answering these types of questions.
the trouble now is that there's less of a business incentive to have a platform like stack overflow where humans are sharing knowledge directly with one another, because the AI is just copying all the data and delivering it to the users somewhere else.
Good. That site has been a toxic hole in the ground for a decade or more.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
