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Well looks like the market is wide open for anybody wanting to create a computer programming opinions website.

by jiggy2011 14y ago

andrewflnr 14y ago
It's called Quora.
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Well, then there is an opening for a site that allows you to see the discussion index without creating an account.
  - markokocic 14y ago
    Nothing stops you from playing a few seconds with Chrome inspector or Firebug if you really need to see the answer. If I weren't too lazy I would probably make a Greazemonkey script to remove the login overlay, but since I visit that site once our tribe a month I just don't bother.
    - _delirium 14y ago
      They've removed the blurred-text overlay and now are returning pseudo-blurred-text images, so afaict there's no way to get the remaining answers without logging in. I can't seem to find actual confirmation of it, but a lot of people were skeptical of whether Quora's previous approach (returning text but rendering it non-user-readable) was consistent with Google's rules against search-engine cloaking, so maybe they changed it to avoid angering Google.
- orthecreedence 14y ago
  1. Quora is trash. 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ is a terrific discussion forum for for all programming-related topics.
  - pnathan 14y ago
    I have been extremely positively impressed by r/programming (as opposed to SO). I would agree that there's a niche for a high-quality discussion forum that is currently not filled. Reddit has, well, "redditors", and has entirely too much NSFW style content. A more buttoned-down site would be nice.
finnw 14y ago
This is pointed out every time a link to a closed SO/SE question appears on HN (for about three years now.) So why is there still no programming opinions website? Maybe because it's a bad idea.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  I imagine a "programming opinions" website could, in some ways, be done similarly to Rosetta Code. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code I imagine it providing a way for people to pose potential problems/questions, and either letting users post their suggestion/opinion of how the problem should be solved. Rosetta Code limits itself to programming problems, but this hypothetical site could allow more general questions/challenges as well.
- nsmartt 14y ago
  I disagree. Building a community around open-ended questions like this is next to difficult. SE was able to counter this because of the nature of the allowed questions. A website with the premise of "ask programming questions that do not have a specific answer" lacks the specificity to cultivate a community that is connected enough to be lively (based on my small amount of experience with forum management). SE is in a good position to attempt such a thing because the community already exists. However, it may still face issues with liveliness. It may be a better idea to just allow these sorts of questions with a specific tag (and visual indicator on question links).

Well looks like the market is wide open for anybody wanting to create a computer programming opinions website.

andrewflnr 14y ago

It's called Quora.

jiggy2011 14y ago
Well, then there is an opening for a site that allows you to see the discussion index without creating an account.
- markokocic 14y ago
  Nothing stops you from playing a few seconds with Chrome inspector or Firebug if you really need to see the answer. If I weren't too lazy I would probably make a Greazemonkey script to remove the login overlay, but since I visit that site once our tribe a month I just don't bother.
  - _delirium 14y ago
    They've removed the blurred-text overlay and now are returning pseudo-blurred-text images, so afaict there's no way to get the remaining answers without logging in. I can't seem to find actual confirmation of it, but a lot of people were skeptical of whether Quora's previous approach (returning text but rendering it non-user-readable) was consistent with Google's rules against search-engine cloaking, so maybe they changed it to avoid angering Google.
orthecreedence 14y ago
1. Quora is trash. 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ is a terrific discussion forum for for all programming-related topics.
- pnathan 14y ago
  I have been extremely positively impressed by r/programming (as opposed to SO). I would agree that there's a niche for a high-quality discussion forum that is currently not filled. Reddit has, well, "redditors", and has entirely too much NSFW style content. A more buttoned-down site would be nice.

finnw 14y ago

This is pointed out every time a link to a closed SO/SE question appears on HN (for about three years now.) So why is there still no programming opinions website? Maybe because it's a bad idea.

jlgreco 14y ago
I imagine a "programming opinions" website could, in some ways, be done similarly to Rosetta Code. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code I imagine it providing a way for people to pose potential problems/questions, and either letting users post their suggestion/opinion of how the problem should be solved. Rosetta Code limits itself to programming problems, but this hypothetical site could allow more general questions/challenges as well.
nsmartt 14y ago
I disagree. Building a community around open-ended questions like this is next to difficult. SE was able to counter this because of the nature of the allowed questions. A website with the premise of "ask programming questions that do not have a specific answer" lacks the specificity to cultivate a community that is connected enough to be lively (based on my small amount of experience with forum management). SE is in a good position to attempt such a thing because the community already exists. However, it may still face issues with liveliness. It may be a better idea to just allow these sorts of questions with a specific tag (and visual indicator on question links).