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.
That is a constant vexation to the ServerFault regulars as well. The nuances of what goes where is most decidedly not apparent to J. Random Googler. "ServerFault" is about ServerStuff! Says so right in the title, so I'll ask about this Linux server I'm building for my family, and the troubles I'm having getting Timemachine working with it. [off-topic close]. WTF? It's about servers! And backups!
SF Regulars: Anything in the home is by-definition 'not in a professional capacity'. Go to SuperUser.
oh.
ServerFault is for professionals solving problems in their workplace, which is a different (but overlapping) scope to several other sites:
DBA.se: Fixing database problems, by the experts.
Unix.se: Any *nix is on-topic.
SuperUser: Desktop-oriented problems.
AskUbuntu: Anything deep-dive Ubuntu.
Security.se: For the particulars of setting InfoSec policy.
Apple.se: Anything Apple
This is why I think LOPSA-people are a great fit for ServerFault. We do this kind of thing for a living, says so right in the title. And by doing it for a living, we do it in our workplaces, which makes it topical. And by filtering the site to professional-level questions, the answers are presumably higher quality than you'd get with a population of highly interested amateurs.
The drive to have a community of professionals helping each other is what started this whole thread.
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