[rohan1024]

I wonder if we could implement a decentralized version of SO. It can be a CLI app since it is used by developers only. The app can keep all question/answers of topic relevant to the developer locally. This will allow developer to find answers offline as well. Since it is only text data it should not take more than a GB.

[rovr138]

While SO is geared for developers. If someone takes this on, ideally it would work like StackExchange sites where one can exist for each topic.

- https://math.stackexchange.com/

- https://stats.stackexchange.com/

- https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/

- https://ai.stackexchange.com/

- https://apple.stackexchange.com/

- https://serverfault.com/

- https://superuser.com/

- https://drupal.stackexchange.com

There’s a ton more of these.

[rovr138]

That, not more than a GB part is very wrong

    stackoverflow.com-Badges.7z (View Contents) 07-Dec-2020 17:09 273.8M
    stackoverflow.com-Comments.7z (View Contents) 08-Dec-2020 03:10 4.5G
    stackoverflow.com-PostHistory.7z (View Contents) 08-Dec-2020 22:50 28.0G
    stackoverflow.com-PostLinks.7z (View Contents) 07-Dec-2020 17:11 95.6M
    stackoverflow.com-Posts.7z (View Contents) 08-Dec-2020 18:48 15.9G
    stackoverflow.com-Tags.7z (View Contents) 07-Dec-2020 17:11 843.9K
    stackoverflow.com-Users.7z (View Contents) 07-Dec-2020 17:25 645.2M
    stackoverflow.com-Votes.7z (View Contents) 07-Dec-2020 22:14 1.2G

[swalsh]

There's a lot of metadata not being caputred by MetaData which would be insanely useful for a lot of purposes. It would be kind of neat if a lot more of that was captured... and if SO answers had more programatic access.

[rovr138]

The data is on archive.org and also on big query if you need it.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

[MitPitt]

There's this open-source SO-esque Q&A forum: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel

[ruslan]

Preferably a knowlage DB accessable through whois(1) protocol.

[mcint]

Whois does seem a little more flexible than dict. Able to delegate and recurse in answering a query. Let's add some flags

[hprotagonist]

with a human in the loop, this is IRC.