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Not really for sharing links, but for discussion there's https://writing.stackexchange.com https://writing.stackexchange.com And for general use of the English

Not really for sharing links, but for discussion there's https://writing.stackexchange.com https://writing.stackexchange.com And for general use of the English language, there's: https://english.stackexchange.com https://english.stackexchange.com

shagie 4y ago
As a fork of the community from Stack Exchange, there's also https://writing.codidact.com https://writing.codidact.com
- Noumenon72 4y ago
  Why did they split? Why do they exist? I don't see a link explaining why.
  - nottorp 4y ago
    Not involved in either community but I somehow don't think stackexchange's "make the answer ready to copy paste and don't link to external content" ethos applies well to creative writing.
    - InitialLastName 4y ago
      The different Stack Exchange communities have very different ethos, and thus their answers have some very different vibes. In particular, the ones related to creative writing (especially https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ) are full of speculative and creative conversations that, while still constructed around the Question/Answers paradigm are not quite so draconianly managed as the technical Stack Exchanges.
    - drewzero1 4y ago
      I know I'm not the only one, but I sometimes get a bit distracted on SE/SO from the "hot network questions" sidebar and go down rabbit holes of reading answers to questions from different fields. People come up with a lot of interesting, thoughtful answers, especially in worldbuilding.
      - nottorp 4y ago
        Oh yeah, the stackoverflow sidebars are as much as an extreme sport as opening random pages on Wikipedia and following the references.
  - shagie 4y ago
    Communities occasionally fork... I participate on a slack channel that was a fork of the community on one of the chat rooms/channels on SE. The codadict split was largely in part of (and I am intentionally being very vague here as if you dig it gets ugly and that doesn't need to be discussed here) a disagreement on the additional policies that moderators need to follow, religious laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat ), SE management at the time, and the broad SE community consensus. To put it lightly, it is a mess. If you want to find an external source, Jon Ericson's one sided retrospective is a starting point. It resulted in one of the more popular moderators leaving, joining a site/project in development and having a pull on the related communities to shift there.

shagie 4y ago

As a fork of the community from Stack Exchange, there's also https://writing.codidact.com https://writing.codidact.com

Noumenon72 4y ago
Why did they split? Why do they exist? I don't see a link explaining why.
- nottorp 4y ago
  Not involved in either community but I somehow don't think stackexchange's "make the answer ready to copy paste and don't link to external content" ethos applies well to creative writing.
  - InitialLastName 4y ago
    The different Stack Exchange communities have very different ethos, and thus their answers have some very different vibes. In particular, the ones related to creative writing (especially https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ ) are full of speculative and creative conversations that, while still constructed around the Question/Answers paradigm are not quite so draconianly managed as the technical Stack Exchanges.
  - drewzero1 4y ago
    I know I'm not the only one, but I sometimes get a bit distracted on SE/SO from the "hot network questions" sidebar and go down rabbit holes of reading answers to questions from different fields. People come up with a lot of interesting, thoughtful answers, especially in worldbuilding.
    - nottorp 4y ago
      Oh yeah, the stackoverflow sidebars are as much as an extreme sport as opening random pages on Wikipedia and following the references.
- shagie 4y ago
  Communities occasionally fork... I participate on a slack channel that was a fork of the community on one of the chat rooms/channels on SE. The codadict split was largely in part of (and I am intentionally being very vague here as if you dig it gets ugly and that doesn't need to be discussed here) a disagreement on the additional policies that moderators need to follow, religious laws ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_on_Shabbat ), SE management at the time, and the broad SE community consensus. To put it lightly, it is a mess. If you want to find an external source, Jon Ericson's one sided retrospective is a starting point. It resulted in one of the more popular moderators leaving, joining a site/project in development and having a pull on the related communities to shift there.