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Re: Stack Overflow for Teams

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Post by Binarytales » Tue, May 08, 2018, 10:08 AM UTC

jonhmchan wrote: post #77

soneca wrote: post #73

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"Documentation on-demand" seems a great solution indeed! Although $5/month per user is not cheap. I work at a medium-sized funded startup and I doubt it would be approved for overall use (as it would be nice to include other teams as well, like Marketing, Analytics, Customer Support). It is the same price of GSuite, that adds a ton more value than SO for Teams could ever add.

SO dev here. Not sure your size, but your first 10 users are much cheaper. On signup, it starts at $10/month and includes the first 10 users. It's $5/user/mo after that. If you're much larger than 10 - creeping into the 200+ people, it might be better to go with Enterprise: https://stackoverflow.com/enterprise

You should maybe talk with your sales team? I work for a 200+ organisation (430ish) and was told we are too small for StackOverflow Enterprise

Re: Stack Overflow for Teams

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Post by KajMagnus » Wed, May 09, 2018, 7:35 PM UTC

colshrapnel wrote: post #80

cheath wrote: post #74

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Search is something that (with the advent of Teams) we've been bolstering our investment in. We've updated to the most recent version of elastic (which unblocks us on a lot of improvements) and we have upgraded how we are indexing questions/answers for Teams. and most importantly, we will just be continuing to improve it - since now it's more critical than ever to be successful there. To your point though, it's the f…

Stack Overflow has very small experience with reusing the knowledge, aimed primarily at providing fast on-site answers, for questions too localized for reuse. I have doubts in its ability to provide a solid documentation base, given a flop it made of Documentation project. Wikipedia is a way better source of reusable knowledge than Stack Overflow, and for a reason.

I go to StackOverflow maybe 100 times more often, for coding related things, than to Wikipedia. Disagree that Wikipedia would be better — when it comes to softw dev.

Re: Stack Overflow for Teams

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Post by KajMagnus » Wed, May 09, 2018, 8:48 PM UTC

colshrapnel wrote: post #154

pugworthy wrote: post #102

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If your goal is to post problems and associated solutions, yes it is better than a Wiki. First, it gives you a template to post in - you are not given a blank page and told "document this" Second, it encourages you to document single, smaller, focused pieces of information. You're not being asked or expected to write a multipage document, you're being asked to write a single entry in what essentially is a crowd sourc…

If your goal is to post, then SO is excellent. But if your goal is also to read, there are questions. Nobody ever tried to use Stack Overflow without Google yet. given all its bell and whistles are intended for those who want to post, there are questions yet to answer.

I use SO without Google sometimes, in this way: I search for a phrase or tag, and read the 20 - 30 highest upvoted questions & answers about that — and I learn a lot, sometimes things that I didn't know, that I ought to know.