[wp-hackers] Proposal: StackOverflow for WordPress

[Christopher O'Connell]

I'm going to add +1 to this whole concept.

~ Christopher

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Davit Barbakadze <jayarjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing I like about SO, is that when you start to type a question
> it suggests you already asked and answered ones, which much more
> intuitive, then - "search first and then if you do not find it
> anywhere else - ask".
>
> Much more pluses under the hood.
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Stephen Rider
> <wp-hackers at striderweb.com> wrote:
> >
> > On May 11, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> >
> >>> I also don't see why WordPress questions need a separate Stack Exchange
> >>> site when they can already be asked on the main Stack Overflow site.
> >
> >> [T]he main StackOverflow site is focused on
> >> programming. What about all of the other facets to WP that need coverage
> --
> >> theming, hosting, best practices, etc.?
> >
> > This is the biggest argument for getting an SO site.  People have been
> talking about improving the WP support for ages, but it doesn't seem to
> happen.  We get letters all the time to wp-hackers saying "I tried this to
> the forums and got no response, so here I am even though it isn't really
> appropriate here" -- so clearly the existing WP infrastructure isn't working
> out as well as it should.  SO exists, it works, and they're looking for
> ideas for new sites.  I'm all for encouraging a WP oriented SO site.
> >
> > The link again:
> >
> http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6090/proposal-for-a-wordpress-answers-exchange
> >
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