Well put. It's maddening that people still don't get it 17 and a half years later. (It's interesting that Spolsky is giving the talk, since to my understanding Atwood was considerably more hard-line about it, and was always the one blogging about the high concept.) I mostly chalk it up to UI…

You can (and always were encouraged to) ask your own questions, too. And there are more sites like this (see e.g. https://codidact.com — fd: moderator of the Software section). Just because something loses popularity isn't a reason to stop doing it.

Yes. For example, on Codidact (https://codidact.com), limited HTML access is offered along with Markdown when making posts, and the details and summary tags in particular are whitelisted. I've made extensive use of this in some of my content, for example…

I genuinely don't understand what you're talking about. Should I not correct people when they say factually inaccurate things about a service I care about? Should I not point out that their use of a service is not aligned with the intended use of that service, or that a community already exists…

Some ex-SO users migrated here: https://codidact.com/ That's where Monica's at.

People keep suggesting Lemmy but I think decentralized social media is preferred by technical people like us. But in real world only centralized social media seems to work. So why not adopt a model that will be good in the long run, how about something like Wikipedia non-profit Reddit alternative?…

Codidact, the community-run, open-source Q&A platform

Plug for the upstart smol doge alternative: https://codidact.com/

Stack Overflow has been thoroughly indexed and backed up several times over. I also have no doubt something would pop up right away to fill the gap Perhaps it'd even be for the best one of the numerous SO open sourced clones[0][1][2] would emerge as the replacement. Most likely though it'd be that…

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