Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor
by dspillett on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:07AM
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> I'm a 70K rep contributor to a Stack Exchange site.
Well, if we are whopping them out on the table... 75.1K over the three I've used most, and a few thousand over a couple of others. Been around since the start, even got sent free shirts & bits in the early days for being in the top [what-ever-the-cutoff-was] on SF, SO, & DBA.SE.
> So ... no, they should not stop publishing updates.
I wouldn't mind if they stopped providing those dumps, I was just passing on that others suggest that they could (and by rights, they could, but I doubt they will, as my post (I though) said).
As long as the data stays available (just on the main sites is fine by me) under a CC BY-SA I'll keep contributing. They can't revoke the license for existing content, if they change it for future content (for the avoidance of doubt: I have no reason to believe they have any plans to) or the sites otherwise devolve (like others have in the past with rampant tracking and ads) I'll probably bugger off.
Well, if we are whopping them out on the table... 75.1K over the three I've used most, and a few thousand over a couple of others. Been around since the start, even got sent free shirts & bits in the early days for being in the top [what-ever-the-cutoff-was] on SF, SO, & DBA.SE.
> So ... no, they should not stop publishing updates.
I wouldn't mind if they stopped providing those dumps, I was just passing on that others suggest that they could (and by rights, they could, but I doubt they will, as my post (I though) said).
As long as the data stays available (just on the main sites is fine by me) under a CC BY-SA I'll keep contributing. They can't revoke the license for existing content, if they change it for future content (for the avoidance of doubt: I have no reason to believe they have any plans to) or the sites otherwise devolve (like others have in the past with rampant tracking and ads) I'll probably bugger off.