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It's a decent idea. I think a problem will be that you are trying to compete too much with stackoverflow. * "provide a community reviewed wiki explaining what
by _fizz_buzz_ 9y ago
It's a decent idea. I think a problem will be that you are trying to compete too much with stackoverflow.
* "provide a community reviewed wiki explaining what X is about": http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript/info http://stackoverflow.com/tags/javascript/info
* "provide a Stackoverflow like QA section": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/javascript
* "provide an chatroom to replicate the IRC experience": http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript
- metalmanac 9y agoMy hypothesis is that 99% of the people who use Stackoverflow only visit the QA part of it and things like the community wiki and chatroom receive minimal traffic. From talking to a few dozens of users, most people don't even know that the chat room and wiki exist! The current number of users in the Stackoverflow chat rooms > with 100 users currently talking in 57 rooms. The usage of the chat is shockingly low. I think there's room to provide a better learning experience for developers and providing chat rooms for developers is a low hanging fruit IMO. People here on HN know about IRC and how to use it, but we represent a very small fraction of the population interested in programming, so the idea is to tend to the general population eventually.
- stuaxo 9y agoThis is the first I've heard of a wiki or chatroom on S/O and I probably won't visit them now I know they exist either.