On 8/04/2017 1:16 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 7 April 2017 at 09:57, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as the
user experience is far superior to DeveloperWorks both in terms of UX and
effeciency.
I find mailing lists (like this one!) offer by far the best user
experience. I use the mail client I am familiar with, rather than
having to learn the quirks of yet another forum service, I keep my own
easily searchable copies of what I want, I can categorize and flag
them as I please and I'm not subject to some provider's idea of how
things should look, when and how the UI should change, how long things
should be kept, and so on.
All good points but forums like SO have their advantages. User voting
and ranking of answers being the most important. If somebody asks a
question on here
I have to trawl through the thread and cherry pick the good answers.
Tags and links to related questions are a close second. I like using
markdown for code snippets and
links. It's easy to search for answers. I've been doing a fair bit of
server side JavaScript programming in Node.js an SO is a one stop shop.
It's got to the stage now where
buying a book on programming is a waste of money when there is such easy
access to experts only a click away. The value of IBMMAIN is of course
it's members, the
high quality of the experts who frequent the list. But IMO if you
shifted them all over to a forum like SO it would be a better user
experience.
And a mailing list is not subject to monetization and/or censorship by
whoever owns and runs it.
Tony H.
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