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What should I know when coming here from Stack Exchange?

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This website seems much like the Stack Exchange family of sites, but I immediately noticed some differences, like being able to comment at once and not being able to vote on this meta (but the ability to vote was elsewhere, though heavily limited).

As a new member, what should I know at minimum to participate effectively here; and is there a good place for finding more extensive information?

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I signed up a couple years ago but only got active here in the last couple weeks. Here are some of my notes.

Your reputation doesn't transfer over

I'm starting from 1 here. There have been some questions imported to some sites and you can claim your content there, but that isn't the usual case and most of us will be starting from scratch.

Most Stack Exchange content doesn't exist here

Despite that Stack Exchange content is permissively licensed and available in a data dump, only a little of it has been imported here. A community tried to import an entire stack and it didn't work out well, either from an SEO or community building standpoint. There could be options to import more content in the future, but for now, don't expect to come here and pick up where you left off on Stack Exchange.

The equivalent of your stack may not exist here

A handful of communities have been created here including a software development community that is the equivalent of Stack Overflow. However, if you are coming from a smaller stack, it may not exist here yet. I'm in the process of getting a Webmasters community going here.

You can choose a license when posting

Every time you post, you choose how to license that post. It's an extra drop down beneath the preview. Different communities here have different license options. The defaults are all from Creative Commons.

Chat is on Discord

Codidact hasn't built its own chat product and run its own chat servers like Stack Exchange. There is a communities Discord server and a development one.

It's small

There are not a lot of questions here and not a lot of traffic to them. Codidact just doesn't have even close to the scale of Stack Exchange (yet.)

Management is refreshingly responsive

The all volunteer (I think) staff is friendly and been very receptive to my suggestions and bug reports.

Tags have hierarchies

I haven't been able to play around with it much yet, but each tag can have a parent tag. I'm pretty excited about it, personally.

You may miss your user scripts

I used a lot of user scripts on Stack Exchange. I'll probably extend some of them to work here as well.

UI differences can be jarring

I was surprised how much I used to use the question title link when that isn't available here. I'm also missing the linked time stamp to view the last edit.

Overall the UI is close enough to Stack Exchange that it will feel familiar. But there will be some things you miss and some things you find for which you had always wished.

It's open source

I went through the process of getting qpixel (the software that powers the Q/A website here) installed on my home computer. Hopefully I'll be able to make some pull requests.

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"You can choose a creative commons license"
Canina‭ wrote over 1 year ago

You can select a default license for your posts per community, or you can set it to force you to make a selection for each post on a community. So if you regularly participate on, say, The Great Outdoors, Photography and Software Development, and want content you post to each normally licensed differently (say, purely as an example, that you want to normally use CC-BY-NC-SA for Photography, CC-BY-SA for Software Development and to make an explicit choice for each post on The Great Outdoors), you can set it up that way, and can still make other choices per post. Go to the community in question, click on your user avatar in the top navigation bar, go to Preferences, and look for Default license.

Also, if there is a strong desire from a community for having other license choices, other licenses can be added to the list. It doesn't HAVE to be Creative Commons, and it doesn't HAVE to be Creative Commons 4.0. Such discussions should be had within each community's Meta category.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago

In the answer, it might be worth rephrasing

you have to choose how to license that post

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you can choose how to license that post if you don't want the default

At present the wording sounds like you have an extra obstacle to posting, whereas in practice I just don't change the licence and don't have to think about it.

Stephen Ostermiller‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Even "use the default" is a choice that the user has to make which I think is a bit of an obstacle to posting for new users. Its extra UI that you have to take the time to understand. It doesn't help that until you click, every visible license is cryptically abbreviated.

Stephen Ostermiller‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I edited to soften the wording and correct the implication that only CC licenses are available.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I see your point about the extra UI. Even though I ignore it now and just leave the licence as the default, I do remember spending more time thinking about it when I first arrived

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Is it worth raising separately that the licence wording could be less abbreviated?