How Stack Exchange, Inc. killed the comment archive on SE chat - a post-mortem
The comment archive is one of the recent victims of Stack Exchange, Inc.'s short-sighted decisions that disregard community tooling. Here's what happened.
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How to fix Stack Overflow - and why it's probably not going to happen
For those out of the loop, shit hit the fan last year after Stack Overflow, Inc. (hereby referred to as "the company") decided to overrule a community consensus regarding AI-generated content. Following the initial event, a long series of poorly thought-through features and changes (both related and unrelated to AI) have been announced by the company. Meanwhile, the community has been asking for the same things we have for longer than I've been a member. Let's talk about some of those things, as well as my last take on the problem.