YSK: In addition to Reddit, StackOverflow is on Strike
YSK: In addition to Reddit, StackOverflow is on Strike
Note: as part of the strike organization, this post is a mirror of a post on MSE Introduction As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around
Why you should know: StackOverflow is facing a mod strike in a similar way as Reddit's mod strike. They are doing this in response to StackOverflow's failure to address it's promises and provide moderation tools
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Is there a FOSS alternative to stackexchange yet?
All open source forum software pretty much
Yeah, before StackOverflow took over everything my web searches for programming problems would usually lead to forum threads. The quality of information would usually be better there, too.
Not always, sometimes you get those forum threads asking a question and the asker just responds with "Got it!" after a few months with no other information
Ironically StackOverflow was formed to solve the problem of every language or tech stack being in their own forums, IRCs, and mailing lists, numbered in the bazillions and non-indexed. Basically Reddit for Q&As.
This looks awesome. Thanks for the recommendation.
Is it decentralized and federated?
https://www.codidact.com/ was started in response to the previous round of exactly the same shitty behaviour from the stack exchange management a few years ago.
OSQA (question & answer) used to be the one that you could host locally
Just found out this relevant Wikipedia list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_software#Comparison_of_Q&A_software
Following
Seems like Lemmy has a starring functionality.
Cool thanks