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Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by [deleted] »

fishtoaster wrote: post #48
benoits wrote: post #27

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Instead of the overzealous closing, why doesn't SO create a "Stack Overflow Opinions" Stack Exchange site where they move the offending questions?

I was one of the early mods on programmers.stackexchange.com that was kinda-sorta aimed at being just that. Some participants wanted explicitly that, where offending questions would be automatically moved to P.SE. Others wanted "anything that'd be off-topic on SO" as the key criteria for P.SE. A lot of the early questions there were pulled directly from previously-closed questions on StackOverflow. Over time, though,…

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Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by justin66 »

Aldo_MX wrote: post #26
justin66 wrote: post #15

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Deduplication. They zeroed out all the "your question is not relevant because we say so" answers.

If you still have a link to a deleted question/answer, archive.org is your friend. It's a shame that the SO community is constantly killing interesting and useful questions, just because "they don't match their format".

Interesting, thanks. I was really just making a joke: the questions I google up are somehow quite often flagged for one reason or another, which makes SO's uncanny SEO effectiveness kind of irritating.

I agree that is baffling the way interesting questions are always getting quashed.

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by catkin »

hueving wrote: post #35
camdenre wrote: post #29

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I'm guessing StackExchange is partnering with them in this move.

Definitely. It was created by Jeff Atwood who is a very "pro-Microsoft" figurehead in the .NET community so there was probably a lot of collaboration in this move.

True, but Jeff Atwood left SO quite some time ago now.

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by mooreds »

hiou wrote: post #28
mooreds wrote: post #17

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Sure, but it's all anonymized, and not current (at least 8 weeks old). Is customer service a core functionality? Maybe not for some of the software for which support is being moved to SO. SO is a for profit company which took venture capital, so it's not like this is an open source project that MS can influence or co-opt if they need to. Note that I've never been in charge of a large product like this, so take my opi…

It is completely unlikely MS couldn't purchase SO? I can't imagine their valuation is entirely out of Microsoft's acquisition budget.

Well, then everyone else who has gone with SO as a forum solution is SOL. Err, so to speak.

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by Theodores »

camdenre wrote: post #29
hoodoof wrote: post #24

Such a bad idea. The format of StackOverflow is very tightly defined. I bet all support questions don't fit that format. Then what? StackOverflow should speak up against companies doing this.

I'm guessing StackExchange is partnering with them in this move.

AskUbuntu is the place for Ubuntu where Canonical are fully doing it. Microsoft are following suit.

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by hirsin »

camdenre wrote: post #29
hoodoof wrote: post #24

Such a bad idea. The format of StackOverflow is very tightly defined. I bet all support questions don't fit that format. Then what? StackOverflow should speak up against companies doing this.

I'm guessing StackExchange is partnering with them in this move.

Already partnered - that the "Internet-Explorer" tag already has an image indicates an existing partnership [1]. This may be a deeper partnership though.

1: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30187/what-do-icons-...

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by jessedhillon »

I don't understand why Microsoft continues to make it's own rendering engine.

I get that they need a web browser they can control and distribute with their OS, but why a rendering engine? Especially one that, in my region (SF bay area), runs natively on fewer than 1% of the dev machines I see out there. If somebody were inclined to test their site for IE they'd most likely have to go through the hassle of setting up a VM running Windows just to do it. More and more, I'm hearing people just say "I don't test my work in IE" and being fine with it.

Is there a good argument for developing their own rendering engine, given the existence of two really good open source engines?

Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow

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Post by rgbrenner »

andreasvc wrote: post #45
Renaud wrote: post #40

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As of just now: * tag [internet-explorer]: 27,934 questions * tag [google-chrome]: 28,153 questions Since the number of questions is your metric for attributing shame, that surely imply that chrome is much worse than IE, especially considering the long legaccy and larger install base of IE vs Chrome... Or, I don't know, could it be possible that the number of questions reflects more than just how bad a piece of softw…

Chrome has by far the larger install base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

for a little over 2 years, chrome has been more popular than IE

SO is 6 years old

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