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> proprietary databases (which granted SO also was)* StackOverflow's database was public and shared at the Internet Archive until recently: https://archive.org
by jefftk 2y ago
> proprietary databases (which granted SO also was)*
StackOverflow's database was public and shared at the Internet Archive until recently: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
They've now moved it onto their own infra, ostensibly so people have to agree not to use it for LLM training: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401324/announcing-a-change-to-the-data-dump-process https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/401324/announcing-a...
- jimjimwii 2y agoWait, I thought they backed off from this nonsense. If they really did close off db downloads then I'll never answer a question there ever again. I bet many others wont either. Maybe that's also part of why SE will fail. The only deal I personally am willing to tolerate is me spending time providing quality questions and answers in my domain in return for being able to download all questions and answers under the cc-sa license and being able to freely download them for offline viewing without an account (via kiwix). No other arrangement is acceptable. I'll look further into this and update this comment with my findings. Edit: Yep. No more answers from me. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water. Maybe small community forums are really the only way to share knowledge these days :(