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This project, Rolling Questions, is a forum that treats chat rooms as fundamental objects. Any line of chat can be "promoted to a question" which gets its own

by sova 6y ago

This project, Rolling Questions, is a forum that treats chat rooms as fundamental objects. Any line of chat can be "promoted to a question" which gets its own, new chatroom with the question as the topic for the page. Promoted answers are highlighted in green. It's a remix of the classical Q&A forum and we find it to be fast and efficient. This way, no questions are removed for not being "questiony enough," rather, they never become questions to begin with. Your constructive thoughts and feedback greatly appreciated and welcome.

yesenadam 6y ago
That sounds great! I can't see any chat-line type questions without signing in, but it sounds a very nice idea. I got an enormous amount from wordreference.com when learning spanish, e.g. you look up "sigue" https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sigue https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sig... ..and at the bottom of the page are links to friendly discussions about hundreds of questions asked about the word 'sigue' alone or in idioms. Questions are answered within hours. I found it invaluable reading the discussions about usage, more than any single piece of writing could be, and it tells you where the people are from, which variety of english/spanish they speak, whether native speakers etc. The other most important thing was meeting a teacher on a language exchange site that matches your language levels, and teaching each other. I had one teacher as a beginner and another years later, both became dear friends, endless hours of chatting. But I never thought of combining the two! Good luck.
- sova 6y ago
  Wow that's an incredible story. Thank you so much for your support. I have been thinking about open-sourcing the code because it could be useful for many other domains.
Camillo 6y ago
There are many issues with the design. Why are the buttons so thin (and therefore unnecessarily hard to click)? Why is there so much space between a question title and the row of buttons for it (far more than the space between the buttons and the title of the unrelated question below)? Why can't you just click on a question's big title to visit it, and instead have to hunt for the tiny "visit question page" button?
- tasogare 6y ago
  Yes, the website is barely usable on mobile. The design is really strange, as if there was a stylesheet missing.

by sova 6y ago

yesenadam 6y ago

That sounds great! I can't see any chat-line type questions without signing in, but it sounds a very nice idea. I got an enormous amount from wordreference.com when learning spanish, e.g. you look up "sigue" https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sigue https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=sig... ..and at the bottom of the page are links to friendly discussions about hundreds of questions asked about the word 'sigue' alone or in idioms. Questions are answered within hours. I found it invaluable reading the discussions about usage, more than any single piece of writing could be, and it tells you where the people are from, which variety of english/spanish they speak, whether native speakers etc. The other most important thing was meeting a teacher on a language exchange site that matches your language levels, and teaching each other. I had one teacher as a beginner and another years later, both became dear friends, endless hours of chatting. But I never thought of combining the two! Good luck.

sova 6y ago
Wow that's an incredible story. Thank you so much for your support. I have been thinking about open-sourcing the code because it could be useful for many other domains.

Camillo 6y ago

There are many issues with the design. Why are the buttons so thin (and therefore unnecessarily hard to click)? Why is there so much space between a question title and the row of buttons for it (far more than the space between the buttons and the title of the unrelated question below)? Why can't you just click on a question's big title to visit it, and instead have to hunt for the tiny "visit question page" button?

tasogare 6y ago
Yes, the website is barely usable on mobile. The design is really strange, as if there was a stylesheet missing.