alt Hacker NewsSome of the alternatives that the author suggests (Slack, Discord, Matrix rooms) are so much worse to search for answers in. Stack overflow has many disadvantages, but it is extremely good at being a publicly searchable repository of answers to common questions
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mhh__ • today at 1:54 AM
I believe pretty strongly that almost every company should have some kind of internal SE
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Suppafly • today at 4:09 AM
>it is extremely good at being a publicly searchable repository of answers to common questions
Closed duplicate of <something that is totally different>
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danielheath • today at 2:21 AM
The only suitable bit of tech that comes to my mind is Lemmy (the reddit-style activitypub thing).
fijiaarone • today at 2:24 AM
And we wouldn’t have a use case for Ai without StackOverflow & Google’s broken search.
OhNoNotAgain_99 • today at 1:51 AM
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Yeah this is the biggest problem with Discord (and similar platforms) as an alternative. Discoverablity sucks. Even if you are aware and have access, finding useful information is a bitch.