[thirdtry]

I have used stack exchange properties as read-only for several years now. I would continue to contribute so I can payback the help I have received, but it is not a friendly place.

Is there a solution to this?

Someone will reinvent a new service, so a new community will form, and then most important data will be recreated?

Can I use the latest court ruling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/web-scraping-doe...

to repurpose stack exchange data? Or just to keep a stash of data for myself?

[toomuchtodo]

https://archive.org/download/stackexchange

Note that every item in the internet archive has a torrent file for distribution purposes.

[nefitty]

Their license looks like it allows for remix with attribution and share-alike: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/