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There was an SO outage this last year, and I only found that out when I tried to go to SO and couldn't get to it. I checked page 2 of Google and found one of th

There was an SO outage this last year, and I only found that out when I tried to go to SO and couldn't get to it. I checked page 2 of Google and found one of the mirrors that you're talking about. I grabbed the content from there and continued with work. I think it's a matter of perspective. If you _know_ that you want a specific site, use google's 'site:' specifier. If you're looking and find something that is from SO, redo the search and get to the SO Q/A. As for me, I'm moderately grateful for the decentralized backups.

remuskaos 5y ago
This is a rather contrived argument. In the rare instances that SO was down, I had to make do looking up the original documentation for whatever language I was using. But these scape sites add nothing of value at all, not even as an involuntary backup/archive type, since they are usually laden with ads.