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In the meanwhile, if someone is willing to bother to save the knowledge that's amassed on StackExchange, I say, it's time to scrape it and archive it somewhere safe, until there is opportunity to do so.

In the meanwhile, if someone is willing to bother to save the knowledge that's amassed on StackExchange, I say, it's time to scrape it and archive it somewhere safe, while there is opportunity to do so.

UPDATE inspired by a discussion with @notthedroids

So I wrote earlier that lot of capitalists don't see the possibility for sustainable business any more, and try to cash out as they can.

I don't know any more if it's SE management to blame or Prosus, but it might be the case that someone there does not see a bright business model for this platform in AI-dominated times.

So maybe they don't see sufficient Return On Investment on running a metaphorical nuclear powerplant indefinitely: maybe they want to set it to explode now, to quickly fry their bacon, the only way they can imagine.

When that ruins the powerplant, that's not their problem. They will have their sorry bacon fried as much as they could, and will be free from the burden of all the sunken cost.

They don't give a damn that this here is no nuclear powerplant, instead, this is the heritage from all of our learnings, hard-won insights, and successful battles that we share here, and that could serve the next generation with all that we could offer.

These sites here carry the fingerprints of our hearts in them!

But for these unworthy people, it's more important to fry their petty bacon, for — in a best-case scenario — like 15 minutes and their petty $1000.

Our cultural heritage, fragments and facets of our authentic personalities, shared in good faith, and frozen in text content, they are uncapable of seeing.

There is a medical diagnosis for people with this condition. It's one of the three items from the "dark triad" psychological theory.

Make SE an UNESCO cultural heritage site, and assign a worthy custodian to it.

UPDATE

SE sites are the essence from all of our learnings, hard-won insights, and successful battles that we share here, and that could serve the next generation with all that we could offer.

SE sites are our cultural heritage, fragments and facets of our authentic personalities, shared in good faith, and frozen in text content.

These sites here carry the fingerprints of our hearts.

Make SE UNESCO cultural heritage, perhaps an intangible one, and assign a worthy custodian to it.