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Why does the title come after the body when writing a question?
This might sound silly, but ever since I wrote my first post here, I have noticed that the title comes after the body and I find it quite strange.
Since I have some activity using Stack Exchange (both public and private) I am very used to having the title before the body, so I thought I am way too biased in this direction.
After thinking a little more I realized that I do not remember ever to have encountered any posting system (e.g. medium, forums, blogs) that reverses title with body.
Also I assume that most folks' thought process starts with an idea, a vague question and then it develops into something more, a body that includes a context.
I made that design decision. If it doesn't work we can of course change it, but the reasoning is pretty much what @pnut …
3y ago
It is the logical place for adding it. Based on experience elsewhere, I have long suspected that thinking up a Title …
3y ago
This has bugged me too. To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed. …
3y ago
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This has bugged me too. To be clear, we are talking about when you write a question, not how questions are displayed.
When I click on the button to write a new question, the first thing I want to write is the title. I remember the first few times thinking "What the...? Where do I put the title?", then finding it is below the main text edit box for some reason. That's certainly not where I expected to find it.
I think that in all cases I've written questions, I have always scrolled down and entered the title first. Each time I mean to mention it here, but then forget by the time the question is written and posted.
I agree this should be fixed.
Oh, and it shouldn't be called a "summary". It's a title. Call it that. Explaining that it should be a quick summary is a good idea, though.
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