On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > just some statistics > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/numpy > 769 followers, 2,850 questions tagged > > a guess: average response time for regular usage question far less than an > hour > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scipy > 446 followers, 991questions tagged > > > Yes they are frequently very quick and pinpoint.
To provide yet another data point, I will mention that I used to be an avid follower of comp.text.tex. I would post questions there and also read it for knowledge. Now, I use http://tex.stackexchange.com/ almost exclusively. I know many others have done the same. I've also noticed a number of LaTeX gurus using the stackexchange site more and more. Try googling a LaTeX (esp TikZ) question. Would you rather read through an archived newsgroup (mailing list in NumPy's case) or have a webpage with useful features, embedded images, etc? jdh noticed this as well: the majority of the messages to numpy-discussion in the last 2 months have not been "usage" questions but decisions, releases, debates, etc. Personally, I would push for the stackexchange solution over a 'user' mailing list. That said, comp.text.tex and tex.stackexchange.com coexist just fine---it just means there is redudnancy and not the good kind IMO.
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