• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    “During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.

    Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.

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      “People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)

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        “by forcing people to come to our site by logging in, but making it hard for people to maintain thier prescence here.”

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          I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.

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          It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.

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          It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.

          Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too

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      also trying to not saying the drop is actually openAI not referencing the site as much anymore because banning people that were producing content isnt as good anymore. plus only going after the lowest hanging fruit of bots/spammers.