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Do you know of any good replacement sites? (If you were to answer longform somewhere now, where would it be?)
by dmoy 8y ago
Do you know of any good replacement sites? (If you were to answer longform somewhere now, where would it be?)
- hyperpallium 8y agowell... http://stackoverflow.com http://stackoverflow.com for programming, and the family of http://stackexchange.com http://stackexchange.com websites for many other fields.
- sharken 8y agoExactly this, for the past many years, when ever i have needed a good answer to a not-so-common problem, Stack Overflow cuts right to the chase and delivers a useful answer.
- hopler 8y agoQuora's whole model is "like Stack Exchange, but with venture capital for a big IPO". Everything after the comma explains why Quora is junk.
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 8y agoQuora is (was) open ended and allowed discussions. Most tech questions I have can't be written on stackoverflow. The most stupid one is "what book can I read to learn xxx". Now they removed descriptions from questions, hide comments by default, so they are heading the same direction. Stackoverflow is helpful as documentation with examples, but for engineering problems is of no help anymore. I usually have to ask in some dev chats and discuss there
- polpo 8y agoAsk MetaFilter: https://ask.metafilter.com/ https://ask.metafilter.com/ It costs $5 to get an account that lets you ask or answer, and they have paid moderation staff that keep answers on-topic and high quality. The signal-to-noise ratio is quite high.
- dmoy 8y agoOo nice, thanks.