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    Generally I think keeping Q&A as it is now, or even making it more of a walled off garden, is a mistake. There is fundamentally no long-term value in maintaining a knowledgebase of old answers if those answers can now be readily provided by effectively any chat bot now days, particularly when they never provide these canonical answers as sources. That's not to say we should abandon the knowledgebase idea, rather, if we intend to provide value to the developer community... we need to actually provide something of value. Commented Mar 5, 2025 at 17:49
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    It's been quite eye opening to see the sharp decline in people finding my old answers useful, now that they are readily being provided by chatbots that don't provide receipts. Commented Mar 5, 2025 at 17:51
  • Thanks for this answer that specifically focuses on how to measure success. I hope it's okay to take the liberty and link to my answer to What can be cut away and why where I also mention the possibility to create something more akin to Wikipedia. "Think about it as more like going towards Wikipedia but still Q&A focused and still with competing answers." Commented Mar 7, 2025 at 18:00
  • @KevinB Yes it sucks. And not only do chatbots not refer back to their sources, their hosting companies also make lots of money with it or at least are prospected to make that without ever giving anything back. Who would have thought that all these years we worked so hard only to never been heard of again. Maybe this all ends in a catastrophy with nobody creating any new knowledge anymore. I see us effectively abandoning the idea of a knowledge base with the vanishing number of new questions and answers. Commented Mar 7, 2025 at 18:05