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Ask HN: Why didn't Stack Exchange dethrone BBoard?
It seems like there are a lot of BBoard run communities. Why couldn't Stack Exchange dethrone BBoard as the community board of choice?
- abronte 17y agoI don't think that was really their goal. They wanted to make a better question and answer platform. If I wanted to talk about video games in general, I wouldn't go to a Q&A site about video games to talk about them, I would go to a BBoard type of a community. They both have their audiences and both fit needs of different communities. Joel talks a little about Bboards in his interview on Mixergy and talks about their vision with developing Stack overflow and stack exchange in the first place. http://mixergy.com/stack-exchange-joel-spolsky-interview/ http://mixergy.com/stack-exchange-joel-spolsky-interview/
- sown 17y agoThat seems reasonable. I'll look at the interview later; thanks. It's just that BBoard's design and interface seem so dated, so cluttered. SE is just more slick, such that, a community could really spawn around it. :( oh, well.
- KC8ZKF 17y agoJeff Atwood has stated in podcasts that one of the goals of Stack Exchange was to kill phpbb and its ilk. e.g. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-85/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/podcast-85/
- sown 17y agoAnother question: would a migration tool to move away from phpbb to SE have helped?