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Copy button added to Stack Overflow
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- siva7 11mo agoReads like from another time, a better time when not everything was ruled by tech and ai.
- SirFatty 11mo ago2024?
- snowfield 11mo agoThis feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well Isn't this a standard feature these days?
- exploraz 11mo ago> This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well For some reason, the copy button won't even include a valid attribution source URL at all: // Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a // Posted by ...
- squigz 11mo agoI just tested it. Yes it does? Oops wait no URL blindness just kicked in. You're right, that absolutely is not valid :)
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- jig_forty 11mo agoGenocide support? That must be an exaggeration.
- immibis 11mo agoNope, they were banning accounts network-wide for calling the Gaza situation a genocide on the politics site.
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- jig_forty 11mo agoEven if they were banned for that reason and not for being disruptive, that does not constitute support for genocide.
- moralestapia 11mo agoLame. I can't wait 'til the site is dead, they have the worst community on the planet, even worse than Reddit and [REDACTED]. Worst thing is they saw this coming and doubled down on what everyone was telling them was the cause of trouble. There were memes out of it. Classic example of product people leaving and marketing ones taking the helm.
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo ago> worst community on the planet I wouldn't say that, but it is a pretty annoying community, and one that I'm happy to leave behind, in favor of LLMs. I think you may be right about the "doubling down." The Meta discussions seemed to get a lot nastier, as time went on. Might have something to do with centrists being driven out by zealots. Happens all the time, especially in communities in crisis.
- firesteelrain 11mo agoThere are definitely a lot of zealots and fanatics
- pupppet 11mo agoIt was a lifesaver back in the day, but struggling for an answer and desperately looking for a blue link, I don’t want to go back.
- BinaryIgor 11mo agoIn some ways Stack Overflow feels dated, but in some ways I hope it will go on; I still often prefer responses found there from the AI's. It also brings the recurring theme of what the LLMs will be trained on when people create less and less content. But I guess some people will always, and it might be enough
- hinkley 11mo agoI think if we started trying to track the version numbers of questions and answers, and attached them to existing answers and questions, things would sort themselves out rather quickly. The real problem is asking a question about how to do something in Java 8, becoming the canonical answer, and now we're on Java 25 and your answer is still on top even though we've gone through two new strategies for idiomatically representing that slice of code in the API and there's a 3rd in beta testing.
- linhns 11mo agoMy suggestion: works on a frecency-based sort algorithm to display good recent answer above outdated one. StackOverflow is still good, just that you have to scroll a bit nowadays.
- falcor84 11mo agoI think it's actually a really funny and naive assumption that had led them to having an "accepted answer" at all. For a q&a platform that focuses so much on avoiding duplicates, thinking that the first person to ask a particular type of question is an authority not just on accepting an answer at that point in time, but to have it be accepted forever - it just doesn't make any sense.
- jl6 11mo agoSome topics are definitely more susceptible to rot than others. Questions like “how do I do X on Ubuntu” tend to have a lot of outdated (yet accepted) answers from a decade ago. There have been a lot of Ubuntu releases since then, with a lot of cumulative changes, and tagging questions as release-specific isn’t universal or reliable.
- pwdisswordfishy 11mo agoNever mind that "how do I do X on Ubuntu" was never a programming question in the first place.
- firesteelrain 11mo agoMaybe GP meant ServerFault
- 7bit 11mo agoStackexchange != Stackoverflow
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoYou can change the accepted answer after the fact. I've done that. I like to avoid it, if I can, because the original accepted submitter gets a demerit.
- sys_64738 11mo agoIsn't AI doing this efficiently already in gemini?