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"they ought to clean up their very Web 1.0 UX" SO has one of the best UX on the web. I don't care if you call it Web 1.0, 2.0 or Blue Oranges 35, but don't clean it. And also - "clean up by letting people log in with Twitter and Facebook"? How do you clean up by adding stuff?
What question2answer needs is a plugin that calls upon the right users to come in and answer a question according to its tags and categories -- and ideally some shared session/domain login.
With Q&A, one should go out to where the action is happening, so decentralization is the key in this case.
I do not think reputation should be owned by a single site because unlike social networking, there are going to be lots of places to contribute to your online presence.
Yes, stack overflow is important when trying to hire a programmer, but I have also looked at blogs, twitter, github projects, etc.
What really needs to happen is for a startup to create a way to aggregate activity online into a central location to disseminate to the world. Blogging made sense as a means to communicate an idea in 2001, but 10 years later, this needs to change. The internet is shifting heavily towards one that is more focused on communities and the interactions in that community are what are most reflective of an internet identity/reputation.
Just think about your own lives. Yes, sometimes you have one off ideas that you would love to blog and tweet about. That's great, you should keep doing that. But I bet you are also dropping bombs of wisdom on various sites like Quora, Hacker News and Stack Overflow that you wish you could share with more people and keep in a more permanent place.
There needs to be a central place to disseminante the highlights of an online presence. And that site should own the online reputation.
"they ought to clean up their very Web 1.0 UX" SO has one of the best UX on the web. I don't care if you call it Web 1.0, 2.0 or Blue Oranges 35, but don't clean it. And also - "clean up by letting people log in with Twitter and Facebook"? How do you clean up by adding stuff?
Level 0 (basic):
• XHR, not ajax
• No anchoring namespaces (no /r/ or /b/, just have users/spaces at the root.)
• No file extensions in URLs (no .html, .cgi, .aspx, ...)
• All production HTML/JS/CSS has newlines stripped to 32k characters per line.
• gzip for all html, js, css, json, ...
• Proper password storage
• Not exploitable by injection
• No XSS problems
• ...
Level 0 +
• Proper expires headers
• Proper CDN usage
• All authenticated transactions over https
• All JS/CSS minified but with full versions readily accessible.
• ...
Level 1 +
• All pages generate in under 300ms
• All images properly sized/crushed
• ...let people log in with Twitter and Facebook, to make StackExchange reputations easily exportable to other platforms. StackOverflow should change absolutely nothing about their login process. It is perfect. I anonymously answered one question, and all of a sudden I have a profile. No confirmation e-mail, no Facebook or Twitter crap. Just use the site and bam! you're registered. It remembers me every time I come back a…
What happens if you clear your cookies?
let people log in with Twitter and Facebook, to make StackExchange reputations easily exportable to other platforms. StackOverflow should change absolutely nothing about their login process. It is perfect. I anonymously answered one question, and all of a sudden I have a profile. No confirmation e-mail, no Facebook or Twitter crap. Just use the site and bam! you're registered. It remembers me every time I come back a…
What happens if you clear your cookies?
I was actually thinking about a startup idea around this general theme. I'm going to share it with Hacker News, tell me what you think. I do not think reputation should be owned by a single site because unlike social networking, there are going to be lots of places to contribute to your online presence. Yes, stack overflow is important when trying to hire a programmer, but I have also looked at blogs, twitter, github…
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I think your description of the problem is about right. But: As a SO-consumer this particular problem doesn't phase me. The better answers usually have more votes and sometimes the green checkmark is even on the best one - but when it's not, who cares? To me as a SO-consumer a bigger problem recently has been the duplication. For any given question there may be dozens of threads which makes it harder to track down th…
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let people log in with Twitter and Facebook, to make StackExchange reputations easily exportable to other platforms. StackOverflow should change absolutely nothing about their login process. It is perfect. I anonymously answered one question, and all of a sudden I have a profile. No confirmation e-mail, no Facebook or Twitter crap. Just use the site and bam! you're registered. It remembers me every time I come back a…
StackOverflow should change absolutely nothing about their login process. It is perfect Maybe it works for you, but I'm still utterly confused about how to login. But hey, I only have about 25 years of coding and online experience. To be fair, it's not SO's fault.
If anything on a site is ever confusing, it's always the site's fault, not the user's. So don't feel bad.