# Solidarity Protest For the Stack Overflow community

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/solidarity-protest-for-the-stack-overflow-community/741889>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** in-the-news\
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/solidarity-protest-for-the-stack-overflow-community/741889 "2024-05-10T14:45:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon10827405](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@anon10827405](https://community.openai.com/u/anon10827405)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/solidarity-protest-for-the-stack-overflow-community/741889/16 "2024-05-10T18:09:24Z")

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Completely agree. It’s just another sad centralized resource that ironically justifies it’s redundant existence by the same means that it justifies taking money from supporters.

We need to return back to IRC. They’re so dang easy to host, and imagine if moderators could pool their resources with the server owner for help. E2E encryption so only the participants have a copy of the chatlogs.

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