Timeline for Discussions learnings and potential next steps
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| Apr 23 at 21:56 | comment | added | VLAZ | @zcoop98 because it doesn't actually help. We could replace the whole of Discussions with a button that, when pressed, shows you a random picture of a puppy. I'd argue that provides equal or greater value. I feel people have plenty of choices to ask their "What's best X for Y?" questions, and SO should be providing something of substance. If SO is just yet another Reddit or Discord then I don't really see a future for Discussions. The competition is out there and does pretty much everything better. I don't see "the reddit we have at home" as a good product. But it's not really up to me, either | |
| Apr 23 at 15:47 | comment | added | zcoop98 | @VLAZ What's wrong with fluff in Discussions if people, subjectively, feel like they're getting value from it? | |
| Apr 23 at 13:19 | comment | added | Gimby | Tooling and workflow choices is going to be mostly what AI nonsense to use which is going to result in the usual posts that have caused tool recommendations to be outlawed from Q&A. A little too late for that one, IMO. | |
| Apr 23 at 5:35 | comment | added | VLAZ | This one is likely to be an endless source of fluff. "What is the best language to make a ToDo app?", "What is the best JavaScript framework to make a calculator?", "What is the best Python library to make an online shop?", etc. Where the choices of tech are rarely connected to the target goal. The best language to choose most often is the one you already know, as opposed to a brand new language. Similarly, a known framework or a library (assuming on-topic) is still better than something you just have to get into. | |
| Apr 22 at 21:43 | comment | added | zcoop98 | Of the three, this is the one I like the most. I think it fills a nice spot where it's directly relevant and adjacent to main site topics, but also not fit for the main site directly– being too opinionated and transient for normal Q&A. Even just speaking personally, I'm very interested to learn about new tools and workflows that I could learn from or adopt! It also feels nicely focused on content itself, instead of the person (which TIL-style content can verge into), and almost completely non-speculative (which tech trends can probably spill into more easily). | |
| Apr 22 at 18:59 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Are tooling and technical decisions closely related? I guess that technical decisions could potentially be much wider but not sure. | |
| Apr 22 at 17:34 | history | edited | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22 at 16:52 | history | answered | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |