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Re: Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

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Post by maps7 » Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

lonelappde wrote: post #21

daturkel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the same thing happened with Digg -> Reddit. People got sick of Digg and moved to the underdog, which has since grown to be much bigger than Digg ever was (with the pros and cons of that growth). I would argue that the platform itself is kind of screwed when they try to maintain quality at scale. SO has pretty heavy handed moderation (by SO and self-imposed by power users) whereas Reddit has in many ways rema…

People didn't "get sick" of digg. Diff abandoned it's users. Digg launched a big overhaul "v4" aimed at cheap impressions the drove people away.

Yeah, I didn't want to move away from Digg really. I wished they had just moved back to v3 or quickly introduced a v5. It feels like they just gave up. I would love to read something from Kevin Rose or someone else about what went down.

Re: Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 4:56 PM UTC

Stackoverflow did that. No discussion on the questions as well as only questions with objective answers make it a useless website for a lot of developers, aside from using it as a documentation or examples website (which is what they want and achieved)

Re: Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

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Post by mooreds » Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 9:13 PM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #6

I see more and more people moving to Slack communities for the QA that they used to post on SO. This is sad - slack is a closed protocol and is not searchable. Answers are only available to a subset of the tech community and only for a limited time (no one really searches before asking the same question again but someone will usually prompt with "that got asked a couple of days ago" in cases of extreme duplication.)…

I wrote a post about how to extract slack posts to a Google sheet (but of course it could go to an email list too): http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3126

I wonder whether some of the attraction of slackfor community and q&a is the immediate feedback and the ephemeral nature of the questions. If I am looking for an answer, I want it asap. And maybe it is easier to ask or answer questions because both go away? At the least it means that the answers will avoid some of the SO issues (where the best answer is 10 years old and has been superseded).