Timeline for answer to Discussions learnings and potential next steps by Berthold
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| May 20, 2025 at 12:37 | comment | added | Ian Kemp - SO dead by AI greed | Why are we trying to reinvent reddit? | |
| May 12, 2025 at 15:19 | comment | added | Sinatr | This sounds like a blog or chat topic. Sure with tags in discussions I can narrow the results, but why would I want to switch from reading blogs of my farovite C# experts to some forum-like blogs build-into stackoverflow? And getting good content-makers here in that hald-dead discussions is what makes it even more unlikely. I'd choose something more worthful to waste my time for audience for sure. | |
| Apr 24, 2025 at 20:25 | comment | added | Wicket | This might be better handled on a social network or chat site with hashtags or tags suitable for this type of post, i.e., making it easier for users to create a chat room with a 'TIL' tag. | |
| Apr 24, 2025 at 12:24 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | "Share perspectives, advice, and insights" --- I think the post in my previous comment falls into the "insights" category, but it is difficult to know how to engage with it. | |
| Apr 24, 2025 at 12:23 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | Here is a non-trivial example of this: I grew a symbolic visual interference model --- I find it interesting, but difficult to know what a suitable reply would be... other than... maybe... "good job" or "that's cool." And perhaps that's the litmus test. If that's all you can think of for a reply, then it's not a good topic. | |
| Apr 23, 2025 at 13:59 | comment | added | Lundin | "Today I learnt x. How about applying x to y?" This is a question posting a bunch of irrelevant "fluff": what people know and don't know about something is personal and not very interesting. This can be much better phrased as just "How about applying x to y?". | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 20:52 | comment | added | starball Mod | how about a chatroom instead? | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 20:17 | comment | added | Berthold StaffMod | @GregBurghardt We did see that many of the more general discussions (such as the one you linked in your first comment) were well-received and got good engagement. That is one reason we are confident that the concept of a Discussions space is appealing to the community. And in the long term, with better tooling and user guidance, such a space would likely include those. So don't despair! Right now we're looking to define a specific focus and see what happens. | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 20:06 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @GregBurghardt Sorry for the confusion. I think they should. And I agree with your notion of general discussions. However, the company won't experiment with that currently. It's not within one of the categories in the answers. | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 20:02 | comment | added | ray | Do we limit the lesson learned to be in technical aspect and if so, how? I have seen discussions drifted to career discussions/stories, which are discouraged under current guideline. | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 20:00 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | @NoDataDumpNoContribution - are you saying the examples you gave shouldn't be discussions or should? It's hard to tell from your reply. | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 18:56 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | @GregBurghardt Unfortunately not an option here. I would have some examples ready: "Which keyboards minimized typewriter cramps?", "Which techniques help to concentrate on programming with people chatting close by or making video calls?", ... | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 18:22 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | (2/2) But I agree that the specific topic you mentioned is pointless. But does everything in Discussions need to have a point? Can we just discuss stuff and have a community? That's what I would like. | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 18:22 | comment | added | Greg Burghardt | @RoddyoftheFrozenPeas - I did up vote this, although reluctantly. I think what might be missing is some way to inform users that they can post things like this: stackoverflow.com/beta/discussions/79551103/… --- this is the sort of irreverent stuff I would also like to see in Discussions, but I don't know how it would fit in to the three proposed guidelines. (1/2) | |
| Apr 22, 2025 at 17:58 | comment | added | Roddy of the Frozen Peas |
I've personally never understood the use of this kind of post (or even the entire subreddit). Today I learned that some languages allow [-1] as an index to reference the last item in a array. Tomorrow Alice might learn the same thing. The day after, Bob. How many posts do we need about the same trivial syntax? This is the sort of info that you can write on a sticky note and attach it to your monitor. A discussion about such a design decision from a language perspective might be interesting, but there's a different stackexchange site for that. Otherwise this sort of post belongs on a blog.
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| Apr 22, 2025 at 16:52 | history | answered | BertholdStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |