JCCyC Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 (edited) (Not sure if this is the correct forum for this topic; if not, please advise.) http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/74814/retrocomputing I'll bet lots of people reading this have used Stack Overflow or one of its sister sites. It's a network of communities in a Q&A format, divided by subject. It's incredibly useful, and its power to retain useful information and Darwinianly separate it from fluff is astounding. When a subject proposal gains critical mass (measured by followers and a cache of meaningful questions) it gains its own site. Let me assure you beforehand that this is a unique format that is in no way a competition to web forums like this, mailing list, newsgroups, social networks etc. The retrocomputing proposal is there (see link above), but until a few days ago it was spinning wheels. This state of affairs greatly disappointed me. I ask you to log in there and help it happen. You can login with your Google or FB account. And, if mamory doesn't fail me, Yahoo!. As of now, what I need is a pool of meaningful questions, with 10 or more upvotes. Each login can upvote 5 questions at most. Cheers, Juan Edited February 10, 2015 by JCCyC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Sounds interesting But as long as I am forced to link my account there to other accounts I have, this will prevent me from using it. There is no reason to interfere with my privacy that way. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 He's also posted it in every forum he could find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danwinslow Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Well, its an ok idea. I'm sure there will be some money involved; advertising or whatever, but its a lot of work and hosting costs something. I have to say I doubt there is enough traffic to support it; current web sites seem to handle the need adequately. I mean, maybe 0.1% of all programmers are involved with retro stuff. The thing that drives stackoverflow is work, not just random interest in computer programming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 The classic computing forum right here on AA *is* the retro version of stack overflow! Just ask your questions and those in the know will answer. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Hell, posting a twit in my AA status got me the last pointers I needed to figure out how to get the TMS9918 working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMR Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Well, if someone's going to try jamming all the dev communities into one place... how long before a "Atari versus C64" or similar war breaks out? =-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Not just AA, also several other genre specific forums. Given the example questions, it seems the retro computing section would consist as much of general questions as specific development questions. I don't know if the users at Stack Overflow who have a retro computing interest feel foreign to join other, existing forums and mailing lists and thus look into the option to have people come to them instead of otherwise. Since there is no monopoly on retro computing related questions and discussions, everyone are free to run their business as desired but most people likely already have found their niche and means of discussing. Heck, not even Vintage Computer Forum which is a long term (10++ years) giant in broad computer related matters covers every possible matter or that every possible person interested in retro computers and programming specifically are members of that forum. Yet that forum tends to rank very high on Google searches, in particular for those general questions that are not programming specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatta Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Stack Overflow has content management systems web forums don't. Wouldn't it be great for there to be one canonical thread for one question, instead of answering the same one over and over?Remember when we had FAQs? Wasn't that so much more convenient to refer to instead of having to search inside forums cluttered with chit-chat? Stack Overflow is more like that than a web forum. It's a fantastic idea actually, and you guys should try it out before dismissing it as unnecessary. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCCyC Posted February 12, 2015 Author Share Posted February 12, 2015 Stack Overflow has content management systems web forums don't. Wouldn't it be great for there to be one canonical thread for one question, instead of answering the same one over and over? Remember when we had FAQs? Wasn't that so much more convenient to refer to instead of having to search inside forums cluttered with chit-chat? Stack Overflow is more like that than a web forum. It's a fantastic idea actually, and you guys should try it out before dismissing it as unnecessary. Precisely. To my continued astonishment, they managed to invent a web community format that's unlike anything that existed previously. Its usefulness doesn't mirror that of anything else, really. And it case that sounded like shilling (yeah... it does, I admit it) I have no relation whatsoever to the people responsible (Joel Spolsky and his business). I just think they're ridiculously awesome. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedgarcia Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 The proposal looks like is stalled for lack of upvotes. We need more people helping Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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