Stephan Eggermont wrote > Kilon wrote >>Here is a radical suggestion you probably don't want to hear. >>Close down Pharo users mailing list, redirect everyone to stackoverflow. > > Definitely not. Stackoverflow is nearly dead, and seriously unsuitable for > small languages. Good questions will get closed by clueless people. > Good answers will get downvoted because they go against majority > views. The ranking system is heavily skewed towards popular languages. > Stackoverflow doesn't allow discussions (and interesting questions), > which is a major reason to have these lists. > > To see for yourself, take a look at the questions related to OODBs. > > Stephan
its dead ? I have not see any pharo questions get downvoted or closed so far. But yeah they are biased and they have a bad attitude at times but in the end all sites have these people. Stackoverflow has like any website it pros and its cons. About discussions in general, how many of the threads that are opened in user forum cannot be formulated easily into questions and answers. From what I see its no more than 10% . And taking into account the frequency of posts in the user forum , I would say no more than 1 per month which is hardly a reason to keep a mailing list around. And there are plenty of general questions in stackoverflow here is an example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18946662/if-pypy-is-6-3-times-faster-than-cpython-why-not-just-use-faster-interpreter <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18946662/if-pypy-is-6-3-times-faster-than-cpython-why-not-just-use-faster-interpreter> so I do think the level of tolerance is actually quite high. If you take a look at the comments in that link its clear there is an overall discussion on the matter. Also it beats "quote wars" we have over here ;) Now for Pharo Dev specific , yes in that case a forum is a must have because obviously discussions are a main topic here to coordinate efforts and code changes. Anyway it was just a suggestion I am fine using the forum ;) -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Use-pharo-users-mailing-list-tp4709698p4709729.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
