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It has been a long time coming, but I've made it official:

"Daniel no longer answers questions on stackoverflow. Use a dedicated public curl forum for accurate and timely answers about anything #curl. "

(yes, speaking about myself in 3rd person)

stackoverflow.com/users/93747/…


User Daniel Stenberg

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parkplusplus
parkplusplus
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was there a tipping point or just a desire to consolidate this kind of thing?
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@Parkplusplus it is primarily the consolidation thing, but also the fact that stackoverflow makes it really hard to propagate the *real* and proper answers and now their latest aggressive AI sellouts.
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MarkD
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It's been a long time coming, but it's time to realise that we need to control and own our own content.

The siren call of easy publishing and large audiences from social networks was always going to be a fatal allure.

At least now we know.

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Stefan Eissing
Stefan Eissing
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They‘ll probably revert that as well and ban you for a week with a stern warning. 😌
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katzenberger
katzenberger
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Daniel is one of the good guys, and I trust his judgment like I trust his software.
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Merovius
Merovius
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@LangerJan At first I thought “curl forum” meant “a forum that you use curl to read from/post to”
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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
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Understandable and good, but a question: is there a "dedicated public curl forum"? The whole reason why people went to Stack Overflow in the first place was because it answered not individual questions but the "where do I even look for a forum on this" question.
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nixCraft 🐧
nixCraft 🐧
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thank you for doing this. I have boosted your tooth and I hope more open source developers follow your lead.
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Michael Boelen
Michael Boelen
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Great action 👍🏻. My hope is that we get more specialized pages/blogs, instead of those central places that sooner or later get way too much power. Especially if that power is based on contributions by the community. For this reason, I decided to revamp my blog (linux-audit.com/), specialize, and still allow #AI to crawl it. After all, if it continues to exist, I rather want it to use knowledge of higher quality.
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