iBug says Reinstate Monica

SO and Reddit share quite some similarities, notably the upper level trying to catch up with the AI hype.

Twitter might have an entirely different cause. Musk is more like a comedian than serious businessman.

@GcL Hard to say it "worked". I have yet to hear about Reddit retracting their API changes.

I thought it would make sense if the new AI prompt site is filled with John Oliver.

This post may warrant immediate deletion. It seems like an online exam laid out via Google Forms (see the bottom of the post).

didn't realize I'm a 20k+ now

but content first - I still watch Mr. Bean series back and forth even if they're only 360p

perhaps because tapes are too old to look good today?

and the scar the cat scratched on my hand when I tried to lift it on its tail when I was 4

like I still have a piece of towel my mom bought for me a month before I was born

people all remember good old things :)

VHS was long before I was born :)

I'm from 1999

tapes? I didn't know. All i saw was VCDs

Tom & Jerry :)

@user1306322 my grands don't

I used to when I was very young (<5) I get interested in anything, not particularly series, and that's when I could watch TV

better TBH, I'm never interested in series

my family no longer watches TV together because there's no common interest

that's long been history however

but TV is TV. The point is you watch together with your family

like some high-alcohol high-glucose drink that cures Alzheimer...

that's how stations forced users to watch those ads, and worse in China - many were (and still are) fake

the TV era - you see a stream of ads right before something important, like the round result of The Voice or a big turn of a series

... until they started inserting in the middle

YouTube ads, speaking for myself, was once very comfortable

(I'm not privacy-sensitive because I'm Chinese)

high-quality ads is what it's supposed to be

the internet isn't supposed to be ads-free - companies need to live, which needs $$$

which is what finally drove me into uBO

I know, but subverting the no-anim-ads policy in the first place doesn't appear that friendly to ads

@user1306322 that makes sense

One good thing that I'm not actually having any hope for is that when enterprise customers generate enough revenue SO will remove some ads - animated in particular

SO would never have been known like now had it not been the UGC

@user1306322 not quite "markets", but the point is they're communities and UGC-centric

@DanisFiddlingbyFirelight Like the initial mass migration to GitLab when they first announced their purchase

@user1306322 I'm sure a replacement is coming up in a year or two, but I'm not optimistic about the future of that product

TBH, the best experience I've got recently from an online community is... GitHub, which isn't led by the company.

I'm sorta pessimistic about company-led online communities in 2020. G+ was shut down in April, SE is in flames, Reddit is declining, Twitter (sometimes surprised to see it not being criticized)...

Somehow. I wasn't that concentrated on SE and I only got to know all the things after September

I personally have completely given up the hope that SE will come back in line with us.

SO Dev Survey answer, looks perfectly legit :)

@Cœur There's a separate thread on MSO.

If TLSv1.2 is obsolete, then what is up-to-date? I agree that retaining HTTP support is easy, but it's meaningless. Let me reiterate: The only reason to keep it is to support legacy clients that don't support SSL/TLS. Since Stack Exchange is no longer supporting those ancient platforms, there's no point in maintaining non-SSL access.

If a state decided to block HTTPS completely, then it's not SE's responsibility to maintain its accessibility by allowing plaintext. HTTP is not life, it's obsolete.

Plaintext HTTP is insecure in two ways - attacker can see what's transmitted, and can also manipulate what's transmitted. It's common in China where ISP endpoints insert junk ads into whatever page viewed through HTTP (ref).

You can even argue that support for SSLv3 should be brought back as well for "compatibility with Windows XP" or what have you, even though WinXP has been EOL for nearly 6 years - from when your son entered a primary school to now graduated. In short, there's really little reason to keep obsolete setup forever.

Don't you think it's a gain (or even a highlight) that you're already leading most of the community, having us respecting and believing in you whenever something is disputed, and voice or action supporting you? This is IMO a very rare opportunity amd the only other case I know is with Victoria Taylor. (no offense)