nixCraft 🐧May 6, 2024
Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.
Show threadnixCraft 🐧May 6, 2024
OpenAI, Mircosoft, and Google together kill the open web. Thousands of independent blogs and forums are now nowhere in search engines or pushed back to page two to support their AI and partnerships with Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. Many humans contributed to these sites hoping to build a knowledge base for humanity, but now greedy people like Sama and OpenAI are taking over everything.
Show threadPajo_16May 6, 2024
@nixCraft Is there any way to find these sites? You are correct in that they disappeared but there must be a way to find them. Hopefully 🤞
Show threadmarcus 😷🧂
@Pajo_16 @nixCraft I've heard people saying that they're adding "before:2023" to their searches to filter out a lot of the ai garbage. Will only help as long as the search topic is somewhat timeless, obviously.
May 6, 2024 at 3:36pmWeb
Show threadPajo_16May 6, 2024
@marcusdeh @nixCraft
Folks, thanks for all the suggestions. It's appreciated.
Show threadP StewartMay 6, 2024

@marcusdeh @Pajo_16 @nixCraft Even that seems shaky these days - I'll try putting date restrictions on searches and regularly get stuff that the results page says is a week old, but actually dates from 2011. (Or vice versa.)

I'm not sure if they're just not respecting search syntax, something's breaking on the search engines' side of things, or if people are figuring out ways to make pages appear to be a different age than they actually are.