{"id":831,"date":"2010-08-31T00:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T00:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2018-04-19T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:56:21","slug":"a-new-wordpress-stack-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2010\/08\/31\/a-new-wordpress-stack-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"A new WordPress Stack Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve been opening new Stack Exchanges left and right on a variety of topics. In almost every case, the Stack Exchange appears to duplicate the content of an existing community. For example, our WordPress answers<\/a> site (now in beta) covers the exact same material as WordPress.org\u2019s existing forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This is nothing new to us at Stack Overflow, which purported to cover the exact same material as hundreds (if not thousands) of other programming sites. There\u2019s no rule that says that there needs to be exactly one Q&A website per topic.<\/p>\n

There is, however, a compelling case for the Stack Exchange technology. WordPress.org\u2019s forums don\u2019t have voting, so you have to read through every answer and decide for yourself which one might solve your problem. They don\u2019t have reputation, so there\u2019s no way to see whether you\u2019re getting an answer from someone who knows what they\u2019re talking about. They don\u2019t have wiki-style editing, so collaboration is impossible. You have to log on to ask or answer a question, so the burden of participation is higher. Stack Overflow is simply better than traditional forums, which is why it largely replaced proprietary forums. I remember hours of discussion with John Resig and the folks at jQuery who couldn\u2019t decide whether to replace the jQuery Google Group<\/a> with a forum or with a Stack Exchange. Ultimately it didn\u2019t matter that much, because most of the jQuery Q&A activity happens on Stack Overflow<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n

One day, the features that are standard on Stack Exchange will be copied everywhere. Until then, we\u2019ll keep churning out new sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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