No, we will not be going dark. The reasons are simple:
This form of protest has proven ineffective on reddit repeatedly.
Shutting down the sub on a Monday will have an adverse impact on our readers, including possible production issues.
We have avoided reddit “politics” intentionally and will continue to do so.
You are more than welcome to avoid participating on that day which will make the message far clearer to reddit through their metrics than shutting down the sub to folks in need who would be here anyways.
It’s disappointing to see the r/sysadmin mods take this stance, but I guess in a way it’s a good thing that they’ve shown their true colors.
Here’s hoping that c/sysadmin thrives and replaces it in the near future as the go-to place for all sysadmin stuff.
Honestly, I’ve been saying I’ll still be on reddit for the sysadmin sub for work, at least as long as old.reddit.com exists cause I’m at a PC when I’m working. But I looked at the sub today and realized - like with /r/news … there’s way less posts and content than there used to be.
And what is posted there is low interest. Also, IDK if I’ve “leveled up” (like 7 years ago TBH), but my problems I’d be pushed to post about usually fly completely over the heads of most other posters on that sub. So it’s not even valuable to me in solving problems unless I happen to hit on like 3 other posters who are actually as or more experienced as I am. Otherwise I get silence or “generic responses” I already know that isn’t actually helpful.
So… I’m starting to think I won’t miss much from that sub either. And I already had other time wasters.
I hope we get some more users on here, and people who are higher skilled (is the fediverse a "you must be this techie to ask questions filter?).
Used to love that sub but the top posts too often are people bitching about work or non-technical discussions. Rarely read anything there anymore.
Don’t forget to flair your post!
Yeah. Some of that is okay, we all have valid frustrations. But it went too far and I really missed seeing more news and technical discussions.
I feel this. I vent to my teammates, who then usually watch me start thinking of a way to address the thing that ticked me off.
I’ve always looked at it as, if you can come up with a dozen complaints, and not one “answer”, something to address the problem, it’s not going to help either. Successful vents come away with something to test, read, or configure for me and my team.
The internet is not where I want to bring any negativity, anymore than my personal life. Better to come in with good vibes, open mind, and willingness to share info and ideas.
I use ChatGPT premium GPT-4 connected to bing, almost exclusively in place now, obviously there is no community discussion but the answer I can get out of it have helped me quite a bit, and I’m an engineering manager
Can you explain - is this using Bing, or is there some setting in ChatGPT premium I’m unaware of? I am planning to try https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt some also, but it’s not the same exactly.
Premium subscribers for ChatGPT now have GPT-4 that can search the web, I find it really good and more accurate than it was previously, I just used it to write a whole load of technical documentation for me on a niche application I use in work. I gave it a template layout I wanted and asked it to write the document, previously it was hallucinating incorrect paragraphs on how to use the the product as it didn’t have up to date data, now it does as it performs a web function.
I don’t like Bing really, the answers are too brief.
To add, I’m in the UK so the feature may be geographical right now. You can see it in a drop down box when you choose GPT-4 towards the top of the screen.
Oh that’s a good review, I’ve been meaning to subscribe to it for a while but have gotten busy. Thanks for the recommendation!
Most /r/sysadmin posts are “I don’t like my management, should I quit” or “how do I make my user’s work life even more miserable”