On 08/28/2015 03:12 PM, Mike Castle wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Lev Lazinskiy <lev@levlaz.org> wrote: >> 1. It is very approachable to anyone since a lot of people have already >> used Stack Overflow. >> >> 2. It has better search tools. >> >> 3. Actual Answers float to the top (instead of having to read through en >> endless stream of threads or forum pages). This is great and provides an >> added value of creating a sort of mini knowledge base. > > Personally, I find all three of these points to be false (at least > when it comes to SO style interfaces). > > 1. I hate having to have new userids and passwords just to use another > damned site. Discourse has Twitter, Facebook and Google OAuth which I will enable. Also I am going to try to plug into the new Debian SSO. > 2. I have more luck using a general search engine (in my case, Google) > than SO's search. Most Google searches for me result in a SO thread. The difference is that when the result is a mailing list thread or a forum posting it is hard to find the actual answer because its buried somewhere. More often than not the "Accepted Answer" usually gets me to where I need to be in SO. > 3. In SO I almost always have to read the entire thread anyway to get > additional context about the top voted answer, and often it's not he > best answer. > > Maybe this has more to do with the fact that I tend to hunt for harder > questions. Maybe that style works for nice simple questions, useful > for those just starting out. But once you need something meatier, > just not as useful. I agree on some of your other points. What do you think the best place to find answers to the "hard" question is? > > mrc >
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