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See also the blog.stackoverflow.com side of the partnership here: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2
by reemrevnivek 15y ago
See also the blog.stackoverflow.com side of the partnership here:
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow...
Basically, it's a siloed version of stackoverflow.com containing only the tags relevant to Facebook. They're thinking about creating mini-sites for other major subdomains (see also http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/913/is-this-site-not-running-as-well-as-it-deserves/915#915 http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/913/is-this-...).
- darklajid 15y agoHate the idea. SO's search is decent. This is just the kind of fragmentation that I already don't like about programmers., unix. etc.. You can easily filter your lists by tags, you can easily search by tag. Where's the benefit?
- bhudman 15y agoFacebook will likely benefit a lot more.. They had a crappy forum, and they can let the rest of the folks actually do their support work I think :) Well, come to think of it, I think google's support forums suck even more. You can post a problem on google support forums, and pray and hope for an answer from their developers.
- reemrevnivek 15y agoPurportedly, this works better than filtering by tags. I'm not sure that this level of filtering is quite necessary, but I think that the community fragmentation is useful: People go to each site (SO, SE, SU, Programmers, etc) with a specific purpose, and the topics on each site are broken up by tags. Trying to filter both purpose and topic on one site would be problematic. (Also, the Unix/AskUbuntu/SuperUser debacle is a special case, IMO)
- bkaid 15y agoThe benefit is SO gets more traffic and users. Facebook benefits by off loading the management of their messy forums and rely on free crowd sourced moderation.