Answer by Kevin B for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
What flag should we use for discussions that are expressly disallowed by the guidelines? other?
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What is the intended difference between "Discussions" and "Chat". Is it the Chat has chat-rooms and Discussions have collectives?A better idea might be to make chat accessible to users that wish to...
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We are seeing roughly 35% higher retention rate among contributors of Discussions vs Q&A — meaning users that contribute in Discussions are more likely to return and contribute again.There are 69...
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We are seeing roughly 35% higher retention rate among contributors of Discussions vs Q&A — meaning users that contribute in Discussions are more likely to return and contribute again.I have a hard...
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Rate limiting controlling how often users can make Discussions posts and repliesI'm once again asking how exactly this works. So The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide can be updated.In the rare case that a...
View ArticleAnswer by Ryan M for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
I don't think this part of the sidebar text is quite right:Do you have a programming-specific question? Go to Stack Overflow Q&A to post your question...I assume most discussions are likely to be...
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Answer by Kevin B for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
What methods of entry exist outside of the link to all discussions? I've noticed several discussions where it seems like the user who opened it intended to instead edit their question. Are users...
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How exactly are the Discussions going to be presented? The post statesThe primary entry point to view and contribute will be the Discussions list page linked on the left navigation under “Labs.”But it...
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We have been told that Discussions is in an MVP status (minimum viable product). The only change since that statement is that two weeks later more controls to combat spam and abuse were rolled out.Does...
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Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
UPDATE: February 7, 2024As detailed in the original version of this post, Discussions can now be created on a wider range of topics, using any existing Stack Overflow tag.To get started with...
View ArticleAnswer by Ocaso Protal for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
How should duplicates be handled? I have just answered in a discussion with a link to a twelve-year-old question asking exact the same that was fairly easy to find.That question is not so good, but the...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin Krumwiede for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
Two technical issues that I immediately noticed:Underscores break formatting. Even within code backticks, you can't type a snake case identifier without it getting turned into italics.The editor...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin Krumwiede for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
This is very exciting. A vast amount of knowledge has been rejected and lost by closing valuable Q&As as "opinion-based." I hope that as Discussions gains traction, it will be more closely...
View ArticleAnswer by pm100 for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
I was going to post ( quite independently of this 'discussions' freature) that in view of it's declining usefulness and popularity SO should reverse it's terrible 'great split's decision of years ago....
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin B for Discussions update: Expansion to all tags
Currently the right column is entirely empty (maybe there's some stuff I've adblocked there? dunno.) but wouldn't it make sense to keep the guidelines box visible on the right so that it's accessible...
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