The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
SQL Saturday Raleigh Recap
The first major topic was our SQL Saturday recap. I spent a bit of time talking about the event, as well as trying to provide some advice for people interested in running their own events. I didn’t have anything scripted out, so it probably came out as a jumbled mess, but them’s the breaks on Shop Talk.
Stack Overflow and Its Discontents
Our other major topic was around the decline in fortunes for Stack Overflow. We talked a bit about it, and what has likely replaced it: a combination of LLMs and Discord servers. That’s not a long-term stable solution (and I don’t think Reddit is the answer, either), but I mentioned the challenges of keeping a forum-style website going over a long time: you have people who form part of the institution, and as they age out or leave, it’s hard to keep things going. I expect that, over the long term, we’ll have something similar again. And admittedly, Stack Overflow isn’t dead, though it is on the ropes.
But hey, at least the Stack Exchange people know what will fix their problems: rebranding.