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StackOverflow Is Having Issues
- 369548684892826 4y agoAnd it's back! edit: It's not back.
- ajoseps 4y agoseems like it comes and goes
- 369548684892826 4y agoYes, you're right :-(
- arvindamirtaa 4y agoMay the "How do SO engineers fix SO without SO"
- samsaga2 4y agoThey will have to look StackOverflow to fix problems with StackOverflow?
- spyremeown 4y agoOn that note: has anyone ever tried to archive SO?
- traverseda 4y agohttps://www.rickcarlino.com/2020/keeping-an-offline-copy-of-stackoverflow-with-kiwix.html https://www.rickcarlino.com/2020/keeping-an-offline-copy-of-...
- cjpearson 4y agoThere are dozens of spam sites that do.
- fabian2k 4y agoYou can download the data dump they publish regularly if you want to, so you don't even have to scrape the site.
- samjbobb 4y agoKiwix is what you want. I keep offline copies of Wikipedia and the major StackOverflow sites. https://www.kiwix.org/en/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/
- therusskiy 4y agomany people jokingly say that their work stops if StackOverflow is down. Surprisingly I barely use SO, I refer to docs and Github source code and issues much more often.
- vidanay 4y agoI intentionally avoid SO. The S/N ratio is terrible.
- toastal 4y agoBut GitHub doesn't offer its source code. Did you mean to say just "source code"?
- kubanczyk 4y agoIt was floating over HN last year, I guess gp has kept it.
- applefangirl 4y agoSame. I've downloaded most of the documentation I need to answer day to day questions, and try to limit my use of search engines. Finding most of my answers is faster in the local references I'm familiar. The Internet is my last resort.
- _Algernon_ 4y agoCan I ask you what workflow you use for this? Any particular tools? What do you do for documentation that doesn't provide a download?
- applefangirl 4y agoI use Dash on my Mac for most of the documentation. It makes searching any of the "docsets" it has indexed fast. I've recently started creating some of my own. I save references I use a lot, like the HTML spec, as PDFs. MacOS indexes these PDF files, so a search in Finder is usually all I need to bring the correct document. If I can't find a reference locally, or know it doesn't exist locally, I'll turn to the Internet. Once I find the bit of information I'm looking for I'll either save the website as a PDF, or save the info in Snippetlabs or Bear so I can search for it next time I need it.
- jjice 4y agoI'll be interested to see a blog post detailing the outage since, at least as of a few years ago, their architecture was pretty simple given the size of the user base. I'm hoping for something as detailed as the last big slack outage.
- Ekaros 4y agoInteresting seems I hit rate limit after viewing 3 or 4 pages... So they seem to do some real time configuration on that.
- alex_sf 4y agoI know it's the tacky thing to say, but: I feel like StackOverflow has gotten worse over the past couple years. The questions and answers are both lower quality. It's possible that Google is leading me astray since that's typically how I'll find Q&As on there, but I don't see the same issue on the other sites in the Stack network.
- trollied 4y agoTheir best engineer went to work for Microsoft https://nickcraver.com/ https://nickcraver.com/ As did their SRE SQL Server DBA. I don't know if their replacements are up to speed.
- stephendause 4y agoMaybe, but I don't know see an obvious causal link between that and the quality of the answers and questions.
- shagie 4y agoThe user experience of the people in the 1% (the 90-9-1 rule - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule ) is diminishing. Existing systems showing their age and failing to scale, processes and norms that work in tandem between technology and people are straining as times change. In these cases, the technology needs to keep pace with the systems (both computer systems and people systems) that it supports. Failure to do that means that the people who are creating content are having to expend more effort to make up for it. Be it people leaving, or needing to spend more effort to attain the same quality - the result is the same. The quality of the site (questions and answers) is diminishing as people are less able to provide good answers and curate existing material to make good content more visible.
- jeffreygwang 4y agoIncentives are super out of whack for sure -- website is saturated and answerers have no real incentive to wade through the mud. It's for reasons like this that there are new startups cropping up in the field. One that's exciting to me is Quidio, a bounty-based Q&A marketplace that demolishes the 90-9-1 rule for better quality results.