Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It
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Re: Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It
#2Just a rehash from the Joel's blogpost how they are better then Quora.
Re: Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It
#3Boy, this is exactly what I have been thinking! Quora gets all the press (and it is a great service), but Stack Overflow/Exchange have been so much more helpful to me because of its specificity. Plus, Stack's game mechanics really work on me and encourage me to want to write good answers and help people.
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#4StackOverflow hopes to be Quora of programming!
Re: Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It
#5StackOverflow hopes to be Quora of programming!
Or the opposite? Quora hopes to be Stack Overflow of varying topics.
Stack Overflow is _the_ Q&A for programming.
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#6I don't really get Quora. It seems to have some good questions, but many inane ones as well. My guess is that with time, there's going to be some crowding out, too.
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#7Re: Forget Quora, New York's Stack Overflow Is Killing It
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or the opposite? Quora hopes to be Stack Overflow of varying topics. Stack Overflow is _the_ Q&A for programming.
I was being sarcastic, these days it's fashionable to be the Quora of something.
I get it now :)
Let's nope that Quora will get it's momentum, and userbase - the way Stack Overflow has, because it it doesn't only people following social media news this period will know what means to be the Quora of something.
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#9I'd also like to point out that Stack Overflow's database is available to the public under the creative commons license. Quora's database is not.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was being sarcastic, these days it's fashionable to be the Quora of something.
I get it now :) Let's nope that Quora will get it's momentum, and userbase - the way Stack Overflow has, because it it doesn't only people following social media news this period will know what means to be the Quora of something.
Does "being the Quora of something" mean that you get hyped up a lot but ultimately are beaten out by a more focused (albeit less hyped) competitor?