Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.
@julian@MDN I agree that MDN’s embrace of ChatGPT is unfortunate, mostly because that model is not great at factual answers.
My objection to Stack Overflow+OpenAI is that it’s proprietary and power consuming.
In general, I think LLMs and other ML models can be helpful to people learning. If MDN had a Q&A site and used people’s contributions to train an open source model people could run locally, I think would be great.
@julian@thisismissem@Jeremiah@flyboy there is definitely interest, I have seen like 20 people post "is there a fediverse alternative to StackExchange?" this week
@liaizon honestly I'm interested in this purely just to see how badly Mastodon will muck things up if I start sending NodeBB Q&A topics as a Question activity, because Mastodon currently uses it for Polls.
But they don't have a monopoly on using it, and I can make the argument that my use case is more in spirit to the protocol 😸
@julian@liaizon It seems like they would be pretty easy to distinguish heuristically. A Question that bundles in multiple Answers is a poll. A Question that doesn't, or that links to an Answer, is a Q&A.
Although my preference would be for a, @/context entry that clarifies the semantics
@julian arguably there's a possibility of a bug there where valid? will return true because items is an array, but options could resolve to an empty array (i.e., no "name" or "content" property on the item because it's a string & not an object
So the answer there would be to valid the values in items (anyOf/allOf) as being objects with a specific shape & type.
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