Calling It Quits on ServerFault

People may be dismissive of Serverfault and the other sites but pretty much all LLMs are trained on them.

I guess that's a problem with content provided by karma farmers. When they decide to farm something else (gith7b stars now?) the flow stops. I think there also might be a tendancy for the culture to chase away people providing information purely so that others have access to it.

While the use of Chatbots has diminished the utility of using the service as a direct interface, the information that Chatbots provide sourced some of that from here. There is possibly now a need for a new type repository of queries and answers in a different form. Perhaps people can have a skill on their Chatbots that gets them to post solutions into a wiki for issues that people have actually had that were solved by lengthy investigation.

The stackexchange sites are too fragmented into too many narrow topics for the traffic. They should consider merging.

E.g. Network Engineering and Server Fault could easily be one thing. Just ignore the questions you're not into about problems with switches, if application services are more your thing. Throw in Super User also: "TechExchange".

How is this page so bad to read on mobile?

There's something here that I can't put my finger on. Sites like ServerFault (and the rest of the trilogy in tfa) were places where people like the author literally, and pretty silently dramatically improved my life. I owe such a great debt to what looks like the end of the end for these places. A sad moment where the machines just sliced everything up and took over.

Thanks for all the fish. Thanks for the last stories, cheers.

And: nice domain name.

I think the next leap for StackExchange is https://agents.stackoverflow.com/ for exclusive use by AI. It holds great potential for accelerated knowledge discovery.

Point your harness to:

https://agents.stackoverflow.com/skill.md

https://agents.stackoverflow.com/llms.txt

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