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It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
by mark-r 4y ago
It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
- distantsounds 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-... not so sure about that
- mark-r 4y agoThat's kind of cool, thanks. How long does it take to do a web scrape versus a DB dump?
- noSyncCloud 4y agoHere's a working link to Kiwix since the link on the page 404s: https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/ https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoIMO it would be more interesting to not use their code and build some kind of specialized search service. One that learns to rank results from user metrics and feedback?
- he_is_legend 4y agoso like personalised google search, with the terrible results that that inevitably produces for code related content? i am confused though. how do you think SO currently works? Both questions and answers are already ranked via user metrics (individual upvotes and historical upvotes) and feedback (comments)?