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I'm a 70K rep contributor to a Stack Exchange site. StackExchange is composed of contributions from the Internet at large. I've appreciated over the years how

I'm a 70K rep contributor to a Stack Exchange site. StackExchange is composed of contributions from the Internet at large. I've appreciated over the years how StackExchange took this stewardship very seriously without hoarding it behind paywalls - the ethical thing to do. One of the reasons I was motivated to contribute is because 10-12 years ago, putting tech questions in Google often led to Experts Exchange, a site that takes contributions from the public and makes you pay to see them. (Really need a StackExchange-type site to take on Pinterest now ...) So ... no, they should not stop publishing updates. People need to bookmark sites and go directly to them instead of relying on an increasingly broken search engine that's past its heyday.

dspillett 5y ago
> I'm a 70K rep contributor to a Stack Exchange site. Well, if we are whopping them out on the table... 75.1K over the three I've used most, and a few thousand over a couple of others. Been around since the start, even got sent free shirts & bits in the early days for being in the top [what-ever-the-cutoff-was] on SF, SO, & DBA.SE. > So ... no, they should not stop publishing updates. I wouldn't mind if they stopped providing those dumps, I was just passing on that others suggest that they could (and by rights, they could, but I doubt they will, as my post (I though) said). As long as the data stays available (just on the main sites is fine by me) under a CC BY-SA I'll keep contributing. They can't revoke the license for existing content, if they change it for future content (for the avoidance of doubt: I have no reason to believe they have any plans to) or the sites otherwise devolve (like others have in the past with rampant tracking and ads) I'll probably bugger off.