Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

  • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    1981 year ago

    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.

    • billwashere
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      811 year ago

      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.

      • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        621 year ago

        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.

      • lemmyvore
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        51 year ago

        It makes sense if the issues being discussed are time-sensitive. Sometimes people need a solution now, not to open a bug report and hope that it will get a response an unspecified amount of time later.

    • lemmyvore
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      Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass.

      It sucks but can you blame them? It’s a natural response when people see that the old method (public posting and indexing) is being corrupted and grows increasingly irrelevant.

      We’re going to see more and more knowledge becoming insular and/or gated behind manual curation.

      This doesn’t necessarily have to mean Discord, can be private forums of any kind but private nonetheless. Discord may be the wrong tool but the problem it’s being applied to is real.

      • Simon Müller
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        321 year ago

        it sucks but can you blame them?

        For picking discord I very much can blame them, I figure it won’t be long until that goes down the drain too.

        • lemmyvore
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          -11 year ago

          Discord could solve this particular issue by simply adding a wiki.

          We’re going to see a lot of changes in online community tools and in the way people use those tools. Lemmy is not exactly revolutionary either, it’s modern but it’s still a forum at its core.

          • @barryamelton@lemmy.ml
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            41 year ago

            Discord could solve this particular issue by simply adding a wiki.

            yeah, as Stack Overflow could. Discord is bound to the stakeholders, and is already getting enshittified.

            • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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              11 year ago

              and is already getting enshittified.

              Not yet. They’re still trying to squeeze money out of people with their profile pic frames and stuff. They’ve yet to introduce ads into app (for now).

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • @kromem@lemmy.world
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      111 year ago

      Once upon a time, they stepped forth from the forests of IRC, but back into those dark woods they then one day marched.

    • @Meltrax@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.

    • @Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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      31 year ago

      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.

    • 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.

    • @Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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      -111 year ago

      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.