There is some merit to concerns about the culture on Stack Exchange. Just like on Wikipedia, you can run into some rando småpåve who thinks they’re the king of the world and tries to put you in your place while they’re the one who’s being all wrong about something.

It sucks when that happens, but overall I think Wikipedia and especially Stack Exchange have been successes, especially in the context of the ephemerality of Usenet and IRC.

Texinfo in particular is structured, semantic, accessible, and has a glorious legacy of being one of the very first public hypertexts.

Rather than killing it, I’d want to improve its web exported output, make it easier to write, but keep the specific reading apps around.