Calling It Quits on ServerFault

37 points | by zdw an hour ago

10 comments

  • CodeCompost 19 minutes ago

    People may be dismissive of Serverfault and the other sites but pretty much all LLMs are trained on them.

  • adamors an hour ago

    How is this page so bad to read on mobile?

      saifelse 41 minutes ago

      Article content is using less than 56% of the available width, due to:

          #content-inner { width: 80%; }
          #content-inner #alpha { width: 70%; }
      cfn 27 minutes ago

      For me it is line space, I keep reading the same line over and over (desktop Macos).

  • aliljet 33 minutes ago

    There's something here that I can't put my finger on. Sites like ServerFault (and the rest of the trilogy in tfa) were places where people like the author literally, and pretty silently dramatically improved my life. I owe such a great debt to what looks like the end of the end for these places. A sad moment where the machines just sliced everything up and took over.

      egeozcan 23 minutes ago

      We're collectively discovering that it was about the process too, not just results.

      I'm not questioning if AI delivers, it does, and you need - cannot say it more politely - a reality check if you think it's completely useless.

      It's just that we are social creatures and those communities provided more than just technical answers to many.

        Bluestein 14 minutes ago

        And, note, that perhaps - even more of those social interactions will also be absorbed, along with the participants, into the Chat model's sphere. It wants, and will get, all: Result(s), process, and participants. It is grey goo for all intellectual - and soon, emotional - work and products and inputs and byproducts.-

        donmcronald 20 minutes ago

        > We're collectively discovering that it was about the process too, not just results.

        Being able to judge the reliability of the source was huge. AI is a great discovery engine, but a terrible source for reliable information.

          egeozcan 11 minutes ago

          I wouldn't say terrible, and even the most reliable people have bad days. I think the difference is when you are dealing with people, you don't get a generic "you're absolutely right" when you point at a mistake.

          Sometimes you get an apology, sometimes you get a wall of ego, sometimes you get reverse-corrected etc., instead of a statistically significant "remedy". This is totally not efficient, but if life should be all about efficiency, we should never live at all.

  • jauntywundrkind an hour ago

    Thanks for all the fish. Thanks for the last stories, cheers.

    And: nice domain name.