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Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by young_hopper »

pier25 wrote: post #14
young_hopper wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have astigmatism and have never experienced this pain.

It's was metaphorical, not literal pain. > People who have myopia or astigmatism also may experience halation (from the word “halo”). Halation occurs when light spreads past a certain boundary, creating a foggy or blurry appearance. In other words, white letters can appear to bleed into a black background, making it more difficult to read, especially if the print is fine. https://www.allaboutvision.com/digital-eye-st…

I mean, sure. The inverse (black text bleeding into a white background) is also true. Astigmatism makes it harder to pick out the edges of things which tends to make things seem more blurry.

There are other sentences in that article that are more compelling, mainly that "Halation is more common and more severe when using dark mode." I'd be interested in hearing actual statistics on this. I haven't personally noticed dark mode being any different than light mode.

The article goes on to explain having an updated prescription is the best thing to not have to worry about that.

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by drchiu »

I think a strategy for launching something like this where an existing incumbent already exists (ie. StackOverflow) would be to niche down into a single programming topic, such that the answers within this micro community are much better than the ones found elsewhere. When this happens, then branch out. Good luck on the launch!

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by Shared404 »

pier25 wrote: post #5

> Dark-Mode first because your eyes are worth it Dark mode is actually worse for your eyes. There are plenty of studies that have shown bright text over dark background is less readable and produces eye strain. Also reading bright text over black is painful for people with astigmatism. Obviously people don't like going from dark to bright but that happens precisely because of dark mode being so popular. At the very l…

I find that it depends on the environment for me. If I'm in a dark room, I'll use dark mode for most tools. If I'm in a light room, ditto for light mode.

I default to dark on most things though, because I find light theme worse in a dark environment then I find dark theme negative in a bright one.

Also, my terminal will always be dark.

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by adventured »

drchiu wrote: post #22

I think a strategy for launching something like this where an existing incumbent already exists (ie. StackOverflow) would be to niche down into a single programming topic, such that the answers within this micro community are much better than the ones found elsewhere. When this happens, then branch out. Good luck on the launch!

It'll be almost impossible to get traction against a service that is already serving the community well, as with Stack Overflow. There are many gripes about Stack Overflow (which is common with success), however it still actually does its job well. To beat them you have to be drastically better (as it is they have to become a lot worse, or it'll require a technology inflection that they miss).

You're entirely correct about the only way to approach it, bowling pin wise. You have to narrow and find something you can own, something you can beat them at in a big way and grow out of that niche. Otherwise something broad like this risks languishing with small amounts of activity across many topics and not enough answers or questions per to really get momentum rolling to sustain it all.

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by adventured »

XCSme wrote: post #18
bastijn wrote: post #16

Rule number one for a Q&A site should be to not land you on a marketing landing page as main page. Put your questions as main page. Your layout is having issues atm. It shows less questions in a single screen as compared to SO. It is quite an eyestrain with all the colors (every tag another color, multiple colors in design, icons I do not understand like the eyes etc.) I see comments run out of my screen on ios, iPho…

> Rule number one for a Q&A site should be to not land you on a marketing landing page as main page So quora.com is doing it wrong?

Quora is doing a lot of things 'wrong.' Wrong as in, choices that produce a low quality service (eg dark patterns, maximizing for volume of content which has led to vast amounts of marketing spam posing as real content), not wrong as in they have no traffic. They get to play by different rules for the same reason Pinterest does, inside-SV favoritism: Google protects Quora from being punished for all the things they do that directly violate Google's search engine rules that would get anybody else penalized heavily [1]. It has been talked about on HN for many years, it's clearly a different set of rules.

Further, Quora - as with Stack Overflow and Wikipedia - had the benefit of arriving on the scene before Google closed the door to easy SEO, easy search engine traffic. Quora is already inside, entrenched Web bloatware, they can get away with more in part because of that.

[1] I'll provide a prominent example of this Google / Quora SEO fraud in action.

If you check out this Quora Q&A page:

"What makes Napoleon Bonaparte such a famous icon?"

https://www.quora.com/What-makes-Napoleon-Bonaparte-such-a-f...

And then if you, as a human, click on a right side bar of links ("Related Questions"; on mobile it's just below the top answer) - when you perform that action, they blur out your experience and present you with a content blocking prompt that hides all the content from you, attempting to force a sign-up. One of Google's fundamental content rules is that you must present page content to them, to their bot, the same as you do a normal human user of your site. If you violate that, much less do so egregiously, they'll penalize your content heavily. Do you suppose Quora is giving the Google bot that same experience, blocking Google bot's every attempt to crawl from page to page and trying to force Google bot to sign-up using a dark pattern? Of course not, and thus it's fraud in action. Google doesn't give a shit because they have zero integrity as an organization. It's one of the more blatant examples of Google hypocrisy as a search engine and it has been on-going for many years now, and pointed out constantly in tech circles and yet it persists, so we know Google is doing it with full knowledge and intent (thus it's an inside-SV favoritism action, Quora gets to play by different rules than everybody else).

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by xupybd »

emrehan wrote: post #3

IMHO, the popularity of Stackoverflow is powered by search engine results rather than their community. If they fail to create such a community, it’s probably hard to establish one around a Q&A app. In a competition like this where network effects play a huge role, your app must be orders of magnitude better for some niche. It could be about revenue sharing, decentralization or something better.

Stackoverflow can be a bit off putting if your question is considered off topic. Some people zealously close questions without really reading the content.

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by chrischen »

pier25 wrote: post #15
mosselman wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have recently switched from dark to light as well in my editor and I have noticed it is easier to read darker text over a light background as well. You, or at least I, notice this as well when I turn off Trueq.io's dark mode on the pages with more text like the 'about' page. You are being down voted, but not countered, so it seems like people are being emotional about this for some reason. Ah well, to each his own.

I don't know if there are any studies about why dark mode is so popular these days, but my guess is because of using screens on poor lit rooms or even in complete darkness. In those conditions it's super annoying to switch from a dark UI to a bright one which I guess its why light mode gets so much irrational hate. Obviously users should be able to choose what works best for them. I'm in my 40s now and I care much mo…

OLED screens save power if it's darker.

Re: Show HN: Trueq.io – A New Q&A Platform for Developers

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Post by viraptor »

jitl wrote: post #10
dsumer wrote: post #2

Over the last 6 months we've spent most of our free time developing our side hustle. It's called TrueQ and is a new Q&A platform for developer. Of course we know there are a handful of other platforms out there which already do this job, but we strive to deliver a platform which really focusses on its community and gives you a nice UX when describing your software development problem or providing an answer for it. We…

Can you describe what makes your code editor UX better than StackOverflow’s code editor?

SO has a code editor? Do you mean the text box with ``` for code boundaries?
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