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

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Post by dang »

gdsdfe wrote: post #30

Congrats the popup that you can close have just reduced my visit to 2 second ... I don't care about your story

Popups can be annoying, but please do not break the site guidelines like this, and particularly not the Show HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Internet forums tend to slide by default into people being jerks and assholes to each other, and that is particularly poisonous in response to people who are trying to share their work. We don't want a culture here where they get attacked and flamed for doing that.

If you wanted to respectfully share what was troublesome about a popup, that of course would be fine.

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

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Post by politician »

xupybd wrote: post #26
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.

All questions are off topic on SO. At least, that's been my experience.

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

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Post by nullsense »

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…

Dark mode first because fashion trends popular among developers for some reason I can't seem to understand.

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

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Post by aliswe »

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…

Overly negative and/or grumpy. Wont all traffic come from google anyway?

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

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Post by boffinism »

So the screenshot on https://trueq.io/our-journey shows one person asking a question and another person, instead of answering, complaining that the question has been asked in the wrong place/way.

That's the sort of thing I'd want a new Q&A site to avoid, not highlight!

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

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Post by asiachick »

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…

Curious what you think will make your site better?

Will you have upvotes and downvotes on questions?

Are all questions on topic? Opinion questions, duplicate questions, questions about general software usage (how to change a color in photoshop), not software questions (how to bake a cake)

Will there be moderators? Tags? Tag moderators?

The first question I saw as clearly an attempt to gamify the user's rep. They asked a very basic question and then answer it (poorly) and checked their answer as the correct answer.

S.O. has runnable snippets. Will you do that too?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/09/16/introducing-runnable-j...

Just curious what your vision is

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

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Post by asiachick »

viraptor wrote: post #28
jitl wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Maybe this?

https://stackoverflow.blog/2014/09/16/introducing-runnable-j...

Though I'm mostly fine with ```

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

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Post by asiachick »

politician wrote: post #32
xupybd wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

All questions are off topic on SO. At least, that's been my experience.

Since I answer 10-20 questions a week I happen to know that all questions are not off topic. It's more likely you asked an of topic question. The 3 most common off topic questions

1. Asking for a library recommendation

I want to do X? What library should I use?

2. Asking for debugging help without putting the code in the question

My code doesn't work. Here's a link to my github repo

3. Asking an overly general question

How do I 3d in Python?

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

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Post by dsumer »

We really want to say thanks to you guys! Honestly we didn't even thought about reaching such a big audience. We now already have some registered users on our platform (apart from family and friends) and also the first people are engaging with answering questions.

Of course there are still pain points in our platform and we know that it is difficult to compete with others feature-wise after 6 months of development in our free time. But we are confident that we can make TrueQ an outstanding platform in the next months & years if we stay on it.

We are definitely very thankful for all your comments and feedback, exactly that's what we were missing in the last months and it helps us guiding TrueQ in the right direction.

And that already the first people are really engaging on TrueQ gives us an extra motivation boost! This is what is breathing life into TrueQ. Thank you!!

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