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How big is the community as of now? Looks promising though in terms of offerings but is the audience even 10% StackOverflow?
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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…
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!
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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 questi…
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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 questi…
I would write a clear question with context, and include the things I tried but didn’t work.
It got to a point where writing a question that would pass the gauntlet of mods and people looking for easy rep would result in no answers.
My takeaway was that SO only works for superficial questions where folks could maximize their rep/hour.
These days I go directly to the maintainers on GitHub or through commercial support. If those channels aren’t available, I avoid the dependency. Crowdsourced answers to technical issues worked for the first few years on SO, but game theory has ruined it.
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All questions are off topic on SO. At least, that's been my experience.
Again the they're-so-mean-to-me moan. Post a link to your questions so we can judge.
“ No subtle put-downs or unfriendly language. Even if you don’t intend it, this can have a negative impact on others.”
https://meta.stackexchange.com/conduct
“Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.“
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I’d be curious if you feel that your comment meets these guidelines? If not, do you think the relevant sites would be better served by changing the guidelines?
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Again the they're-so-mean-to-me moan. Post a link to your questions so we can judge.
I agree it’s hard to judge a particular case without seeing the specific example. But you might want to consider the following: “ No subtle put-downs or unfriendly language. Even if you don’t intend it, this can have a negative impact on others.” https://meta.stackexchange.com/conduct “Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at th…
I hold the second part is reasonable though.