On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Peter Grace <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just so you are all aware, we are VERY interested in finding ways of > growing ServerFault's community and participation. As some of you may > know, ServerFault has a strong, awesome community, but we're bummed that it > doesn't quite have the same reach as stackoverflow. It's a problem we > discuss here internally among our SysAdmins and the community building team > often. Usually when someone in the community has a programming question, > the answer is "check stackoverflow!" and we're hoping that ServerFault > becomes just as ubiquitous. > The thing I run into most often is simply confusion: there are a lot of StackExchange sites, and it seems like people often have trouble figuring out which one is appropriate. And probably often have limited ability to deal with keeping track of an ever-growing network of essentially similar sites. (It also seems to me like it's not always obvious whether a particular question belongs on serverfault, superuser, or unix.s.c. Certainly the kinds of questions that LOPSA members might provide input on could range through all three, even ignoring the OS-specific sites or the overlap with stackoverflow, codereview.s.c, etc.) -- brandon s allbery [email protected] wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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