Re:StackOverflow Is Down
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:19AM
(#32332933)
StackExchange is by no means perfect, but the copyleft content license is a key reason I feel comfortable contributing to the platform. (Which I assume is why they do it.)
It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
Re:StackOverflow Is Down
by distantsounds on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:20AM
(#32332936)
https://www.rickcarlino.com/2020/keeping-an-offline-copy-of-...
not so sure about that
Re:StackOverflow Is Down
by noSyncCloud on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:36PM
(#32334670)
Here's a working link to Kiwix since the link on the page 404s: https://www.kiwix.org/en/download/
That's kind of cool, thanks. How long does it take to do a web scrape versus a DB dump?
Re:StackOverflow Is Down
by MonkeyMalarky on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:20AM
(#32332937)
IMO it would be more interesting to not use their code and build some kind of specialized search service. One that learns to rank results from user metrics and feedback?
Re:StackOverflow Is Down
by he_is_legend on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:26PM
(#32335206)
so like personalised google search, with the terrible results that that inevitably produces for code related content?
i am confused though. how do you think SO currently works? Both questions and answers are already ranked via user metrics (individual upvotes and historical upvotes) and feedback (comments)?
So nothing is stopping anyone to spin-up multiple instances.