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Well, StackOverflow devs are able to cheat and load up the site on their local machine if they want to
by yaakov 10y ago
Well, StackOverflow devs are able to cheat and load up the site on their local machine if they want to
- mevile 10y agoI'm not sure I like the idea of being able to connect to a prod db from a dev instance, but whatever floats your boat.
- progval 10y agoThere are public dumps of Stack Overflow's database. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- flukus 10y agoWho says they have to? The can just restore a recent backup.
- jsmeaton 10y agoI doubt they'd allow that either - but database exports are a thing or they could just query the database or elasticsearch themselves.
- bboreham 10y agoAnyone can download the underlying data and look at it on their local machine. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange