IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
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IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
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Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#2Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#3This is great news. In the past we worked with a great group of developer advocates, and I know they spent countless hours answering all sorts of technical questions on Windows development on StackOverflow. Making this official was only the next natural step.
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#4I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
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#5I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
I'm sure they'll be using the SO API every night and building an internal database, just in case.
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#6I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available:
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#7Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
I think Stack Overflow has been getting worse and worse in recent years. Their community is outright hostile to active discussion. Only directly answerable questions are tolerated. Microsoft is (as always) a few years late to the party.
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#8I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
All the data is creative commons and Stack Overflow makes complete data dumps available: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So the trade off (going where the users are vs. the assets) doesn't seem that bad.
Its only 25GB!? I could have this all in Elasticsearch locally!
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#9I guess you have to go where the people are, but man, I wouldn't want to outsource the knowledge base/forums for a major product to a different company. Seems like a valuable asset to give up.
It'll be a nice change from condescending Microsoft employees insisting the problem is on your end. Generalizing of course, but that's pretty much been my experience with the official forums.
Re: IE Web Development Support Moving to Stack Overflow
#10Microsoft making a lot of moves that are starting surprise the tech community. it will take some time to convert the generation that grew up with the old closed microsoft, but slowly I believe they will have converts.
I think Stack Overflow has been getting worse and worse in recent years. Their community is outright hostile to active discussion. Only directly answerable questions are tolerated. Microsoft is (as always) a few years late to the party.
I am a mod on a similarly hostile StackExchange site. The community has always been outright hostile to active discussion (outside of chat, the area of the site for specifically this) for all but a brief period when it was still working out what it was. The fact it's hostile to active discussion is part of what enables it to continue to be a useful resource.
That's not to say Stack Overflow isn't without its problems, but it's more the hostility (something which we're trying to address[1]) that's the problem than the stance against active discussion.
[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/240839/the-new-new-...