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Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by AznHisoka »

davnicwil wrote: post #2

I had a side project which was basically this (at least this was my [company] for [x] summary of the project) a couple of years ago. I always wondered why StackOverflow weren't doing it, and after years of wondering this I just built it myself. I tried to publicise it a bit (not a lot, in fairness) and didn't generate much buzz. I even speculatively applied to YC with it, with the beta written and running, and got no…

It's a vitamin, not a painkiller. Thus it will most likely succeed if a huge brand launches it like StackOverFlow.

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by azhenley »

davnicwil wrote: post #5
azhenley wrote: post #4

This has already existed in the form of Stack Overflow Enterprise [1]. One major difference is that the company I was at managed and maintained their instance of Stack Overflow (it involved a lot of work). I wonder what else is different (or maybe this is just a replacement for Enterprise?) [1] https://www.stackoverflowbusiness.com/enterprise

When was this launched?

It has been around since at least 2010 [1], and there was a more official release in mid 2013 [2].

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/69436/169404

[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/197549/169404

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by zerkten »

sklegg wrote: post #6

Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.

Both of those are much more "free form". You have to put effort in to get some value out. That's before you think of culture, and for it to be the norm for people to use those tools. SO has structure for Q&A which solves the technical issue, but it still doesn't solve the cultural aspect.

Does pestering being "easier" reflect a deeper problem? Maybe, maybe not, but in a lot of places people get annoyed having to answer the same question over and over. Committing answers to writing also helps clarify them and avoids someone walking off with institutional knowledge. In theory, that improves things.

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by zerkten »

davnicwil wrote: post #2

I had a side project which was basically this (at least this was my [company] for [x] summary of the project) a couple of years ago. I always wondered why StackOverflow weren't doing it, and after years of wondering this I just built it myself. I tried to publicise it a bit (not a lot, in fairness) and didn't generate much buzz. I even speculatively applied to YC with it, with the beta written and running, and got no…

Q&A tools (or features for existing community/collaboration tools) are an common request in the enterprise space. Virtually every large organization has some kind of knowledge manager either trying to build, or manage tools for this sort of thing. It's hard to understand why you didn't get a response without more context.

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by captainmuon »

This would be great for CERN. We do a lot of software development, but most of it is very bespoke, and you are often not going to get an answer on stackoverflow. Also there are confidentially requirements (it would be great if you could tag a post e.g. ATLAS-internal, CMS-internal, and then only people from your experiment could see that post). We probably have tens of thousands of members, so I think we have the critical size needed for such a project. Finally, I can see it not only used for programming, but also for physics, statistics, analysis questions in general.

Currently, we are mostly using old school mailing lists, and it can be hard to find some information you are looking for.

I would sign up, and prod our computing department to check this, but I'm quitting next week :-(.

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by lloydde »

Hernanpm wrote: post #13

My team uses http://flarum.org/ for the same purpose we even added a slack notification plugin when new questions are added.

What were some of your deciding factors? Does that forum software have modules or configurations that make it effective as a Q&A focused site? How does Flarum compare to say Discourse?

Re: StackOverflow for private teams in beta

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Post by rrdharan »

sklegg wrote: post #6

Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.

Various folks have been looking at Slack as the medium for handling this sort of thing, e.g.:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/17/niles-is-a-slack-bot-that-...

Slack themselves are trying to tackle this as well of course:

https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e

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