Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
People cheering on SOs demise don’t realize what we’re losing.
Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass. Asking the same question over and over, hoping somone is around to help.
It sucks.
I never understood the move to synchronous communication for asynchronous questions. The ephemeral nature of discord is really a PITA. It’s like using IRC for a FAQ.
Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.
It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.
It’s purely because of how easy it is to create and manage a community. Imagine if there were a way to make a Lemmy instance without any fees or knowledge of selfhosting, it would be an instant success.
They don’t operate well at scale needed, though.
And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.
Exactly. I really hate when people use Discord for stuff like this.
Or slack
Not to mention the people answering the questions are liable to just start accusing you of being an idiot if you make any less progress with their solution than “it’s been fixed so hard that it gained five new functions I didn’t even write into it!” I wrote a 3Js project once and ISTG the people on that discord had all the patience of a three year old who suddenly has to go to the bathroom the red second you’ve merged onto the highway.
Once upon a time, they stepped forth from the forests of IRC, but back into those dark woods they then one day marched.
Discord is straight up unwelcome on corporate networks.
I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.
So four months til GPT starts calling everyone “kitten”
I just got a ping the other day from a Discord server that said they’d finished moving their support onto a forum on their website specifically because Discord’s forum feature is terrible.
do you know where?
The period when dejanews just started to index newsgroups was a golden age for finding answers on the internet, IMO, and there’s a strong similarity to the fediverse. All we need is for it to be searchable… OK, I see your point now.
I support the take over. People thinking that they can pick and choose who makes money and how are fooling themselves. The developer who wants all his IP protected so he can make money is upset that a larger entity is also making money is honestly tough fucking shit. Either go back to the origins of the internet napster days or shut the fuck up and live with what we created. There isn’t any middle ground. Its only going to get worse unless you make this place hostile to people building walls and stealing all the data for themselves.