This is both awesome and depressing.<p>But it gave me a really interesting idea: a service/network/community/forum/etc for people to gather and discuss Really Confusing Bugs™ that they're trying to figure out. Not necessarily (?) for contemporary end users (maybe highly technical end users).<p>This could actually be a really cool concept. Somewhere squarely between HackerOne and StackOverflow - not for exploits, and not for simple(r) stuff, but specifically for complicated and confusing bugs you've been staring at for days/weeks and nothing's making any sense.<p>I can see a subscription model working for this, even - subscriptions would work both to allow people to provide extended assistance, and also because a contract makes NDAs easier.<p>Hmm. Thinking about how the subscription model would work... you sign up, configure billing, that then allows you to request extended assistance.<p>- One way that could work is that people offer you help in return for thanks, which would work like a configurable upvote; higher quality answers attract more rewards. Maybe anyone can reward answers (via the credit in their account) after the fact?<p>- Another way would be setting a minimum or exact reward amount up front to attract more help.<p>Regardless of how it worked, the site would have all discussion be public and open by default; you'd have to check a box to make the discussion private, and even after that you'd have the ability to go through and selectively un-redact parts of the conversations so everyone could be helped.<p>And anyone could sign up and offer answers instantly, and the rewards credited to their account could be cashed out at any time. That would attract new users.<p>I realize I've just described a weird kind of paid StackOverflow. I am very curious why SE hasn't pursued such an idea. As in, I am 1000% confident they've had this conversation <i>at least</i> once, and I'd really love to hear what the opinions were.