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Mind you, this question wasn't even posted on SO. It was posted on programmers.stackexchange.com which begs the question, on which stackexchange site, if any, w

by Sandman 14y ago

Mind you, this question wasn't even posted on SO. It was posted on programmers.stackexchange.com which begs the question, on which stackexchange site, if any, would this be a valid question?

bunderbunder 14y ago
Heh. I'm old school; I think it all belongs on SO and P.SE should be merged back into the mother site. As far as I can tell, the only practical consequences of having them as two separate sites are that you have to set up different user accounts to use them, and the SE.com is less discoverable because search results depend on what subsite you search on. Not exactly a great win for usability. Having separate sites for completely separate topics (like most the others on SE) makes all the sense in the world. But sticking a Berlin wall between the categories of "programming questions" and "other programming questions" is just goofy. To my mind, the original once-sentence statement of how P.SE is different from SO (Paraphrased, "SO is for when you're sitting at the keyboard, P.SE is for when you're standing at the whiteboard.") makes it clear that the idea was fuzzily-conceived from the get-go. And it only got more muddled when the maintainers of the site, which had originally been specifically envisioned as a place for subjective discussion as per the very first sentence of the (original) site FAQ,* came out with a decision that it was absolutely not a place for subjective discussion, no how no way. *Those with long memories will catch me out by pointing out that the very next paragraph of the original FAQ started by making a sudden one hundred eighty degree turn and specifically admonishing people to not ask subjective questions. I must concede that this is absolutely true. But I would counter by saying this fact doesn't make P.SE look any more well-conceived.

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Mind you, this question wasn't even posted on SO. It was posted on programmers.stackexchange.com which begs the question, on which stackexchange site, if any, w

by Sandman 14y ago

Mind you, this question wasn't even posted on SO. It was posted on programmers.stackexchange.com which begs the question, on which stackexchange site, if any, would this be a valid question?

bunderbunder 14y ago
Heh. I'm old school; I think it all belongs on SO and P.SE should be merged back into the mother site. As far as I can tell, the only practical consequences of having them as two separate sites are that you have to set up different user accounts to use them, and the SE.com is less discoverable because search results depend on what subsite you search on. Not exactly a great win for usability. Having separate sites for completely separate topics (like most the others on SE) makes all the sense in the world. But sticking a Berlin wall between the categories of "programming questions" and "other programming questions" is just goofy. To my mind, the original once-sentence statement of how P.SE is different from SO (Paraphrased, "SO is for when you're sitting at the keyboard, P.SE is for when you're standing at the whiteboard.") makes it clear that the idea was fuzzily-conceived from the get-go. And it only got more muddled when the maintainers of the site, which had originally been specifically envisioned as a place for subjective discussion as per the very first sentence of the (original) site FAQ,* came out with a decision that it was absolutely not a place for subjective discussion, no how no way. *Those with long memories will catch me out by pointing out that the very next paragraph of the original FAQ started by making a sudden one hundred eighty degree turn and specifically admonishing people to not ask subjective questions. I must concede that this is absolutely true. But I would counter by saying this fact doesn't make P.SE look any more well-conceived.