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

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Post by bastijn »

aliswe wrote: post #34
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?

I agree, was not in the right mood when I wrote that reply. Should have formulated much more positive.

The points are still valid though so I'll leave it as is. Hoping the authors can still find information in it.

Traffic that comes from Google is not the traffic that builds a community, which they highlight as their strong point. For that you need people who put your site in their routine visits. In addition, right now being small google is not in your favor. It will forward me to SO, not TrueQ. They might want to change their urls as quickly as possible, replacing the question id in the url with the full title to improve indexing.

What I also noticed is that I cannot up vote without having an account. E.g. This question: https://trueq.io/q/18 has a better answer that is not the top answer. I see no way of upvoting it though without an account (did not try to login). Not sure if that is intended. I also see no clear indication of votes on an answer. Even if 0, you should show it. It is the second most valuable piece of information in a Q&A site for me.

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

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

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.

Again the they're-so-mean-to-me moan. Post a link to your questions so we can judge.

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

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

The landing page is kind of slick and vacuous, with cute little images. That feels like marketing did it, not engineers. Perhaps that's unfair but it's a bad sign for me.

"Dark-Mode first / because your eyes are worth it" That's not based on any evidence, just what you want to give. It's not a selling point for me. I guess you allow it to be changed so I guess it's not a problem either.

https://trueq.io/create-question, well literally you can't even fill in fields - as in, type in text - without javascript enabled. That alone will kill it for me.

Also how does it compare to SO?

Just some feedback - good luck!

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

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Post by xupybd »

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.

I can't say that's been my experience. But some very precise questions are sometimes mistaken for general questions when they can be mistaken for general questions when only skimmed over.

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

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Post by gdsdfe »

dang wrote: post #31
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 cult…

I was just giving feedback ... Maybe sarcasm doesn't translate well in writing

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

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Post by jayparth »

adventured wrote: post #25
XCSme wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Rule number one for a Q&A site should be to not land you on a marketing landing page as main page So quora.com is doing it wrong?

Quora is doing a lot of things 'wrong.' Wrong as in, choices that produce a low quality service (eg dark patterns, maximizing for volume of content which has led to vast amounts of marketing spam posing as real content), not wrong as in they have no traffic. They get to play by different rules for the same reason Pinterest does, inside-SV favoritism: Google protects Quora from being punished for all the things they d…

Do you have a concrete source on the Google Quora thing?

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

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Post by mikeyjk »

XCSme wrote: post #18
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…

> Rule number one for a Q&A site should be to not land you on a marketing landing page as main page So quora.com is doing it wrong?

I couldn't use quora today on mobile without signing up. Not sure if it was based on my user agent but it was pretty annoying.

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

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Post by lolc »

I tried finding out what usage terms would be with content posted to the site. I don't think I want to use it because I still don't know. I only found the this section in the terms:

> Content and postings > > You may print a copy of any part of the Website and Services for your personal or non-commercial use. > > You may submit new content and comment on the existing content on the Website. By uploading or otherwise making available any information to Ankhbayar Batsukh e.U., you grant Ankhbayar Batsukh e.U. the unlimited, perpetual right to distribute, display, publish, reproduce, reuse and copy the information contained therein. [...]

https://trueq.io/legal/terms-of-service

Consider adding an overt statement like Stackoverflow does:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

Because I don't want to guess around about this. And if you keep the "non-commercial" in there, I'm gone. Because that's a huge can of worms I don't like the taste of.

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

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Post by TylerE »

mosselman wrote: post #7
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…

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 generally wind dark (but not black, more live a navy blue or dark grey or similar) better for stuff with lots of color (e.g. code) but light (but not white - creme like HN or a kindle screen) much better for reading paragraph text.

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

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Post by dsumer »

lolc wrote: post #48

I tried finding out what usage terms would be with content posted to the site. I don't think I want to use it because I still don't know. I only found the this section in the terms: > Content and postings > > You may print a copy of any part of the Website and Services for your personal or non-commercial use. > > You may submit new content and comment on the existing content on the Website. By uploading or otherwise…

thx for your hint! we've adjusted it on our page (you may have to reload with clearing your browser's cache before). we will deploy a new version in the evening where we'll also include a link to the license. cheers!
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