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To answer the original question of how to approach programmer sites, I think a number of important features should be considered. Making relevant versions of OS, programming languages, libraries, ...
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2020-06-21T20:19:25Z (over 4 years ago)
- To answer the original question of how to approach programmer sites, I think a number of important features should be considered.
- - Making relevant versions of OS, programming languages, libraries, software and hardware visible;
- Having a way to tell whether the question/problem and the answers/solution apply to multiple (a range, multiple ranges or distinct) versions of each relevant OS, language, library;- - Making it easy to add new versions and review older posts, update whether the question and answers are still relevant and work for newer versions.
- These are direly needed on StackOverflow due to how old some of the questions and answers are.
- Additionally, there needs to be a way to organize/group/link questions about the same, at the base of it, problem, but with slight differences between versions of relevant elements. Something like "Linked questions" widget on StackExchange.
- Maybe with even tighter integration/consolidation of data. For example, adding a question variation to an existing question, with a brief description of what makes it different, so users could then browse the same core question, and pick between slight variations on the same page. This could turn the question into more of an all-purpose guide for solving the problem throughout all the versions of the software and OS combinations on one page instead of separate pages. Although it might make the page confusing and harder to navigate.
- To answer the original question of how to approach programmer sites, I think a number of important features should be considered.
- - Making relevant versions of OS, programming languages, libraries, software and hardware visible;
- - Having a way to tell whether the question/problem and the answers/solution apply to multiple (a range, multiple ranges or distinct) versions of each relevant OS, language, library. Let's say, in shape of a list of checkboxes of all the versions;
- - Making it easy to add new versions and review older posts, update whether the question and answers are still relevant and work for newer versions.
- These are direly needed on StackOverflow due to how old some of the questions and answers are.
- Additionally, there needs to be a way to organize/group/link questions about the same, at the base of it, problem, but with slight differences between versions of relevant elements. Something like "Linked questions" widget on StackExchange.
- Maybe with even tighter integration/consolidation of data. For example, adding a question variation to an existing question, with a brief description of what makes it different, so users could then browse the same core question, and pick between slight variations on the same page. This could turn the question into more of an all-purpose guide for solving the problem throughout all the versions of the software and OS combinations on one page instead of separate pages. Although it might make the page confusing and harder to navigate.
#1: Initial revision
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user1306322
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2020-06-21T20:18:23Z (over 4 years ago)
To answer the original question of how to approach programmer sites, I think a number of important features should be considered. - Making relevant versions of OS, programming languages, libraries, software and hardware visible; - Having a way to tell whether the question/problem and the answers/solution apply to multiple (a range, multiple ranges or distinct) versions of each relevant OS, language, library; - Making it easy to add new versions and review older posts, update whether the question and answers are still relevant and work for newer versions. These are direly needed on StackOverflow due to how old some of the questions and answers are. Additionally, there needs to be a way to organize/group/link questions about the same, at the base of it, problem, but with slight differences between versions of relevant elements. Something like "Linked questions" widget on StackExchange. Maybe with even tighter integration/consolidation of data. For example, adding a question variation to an existing question, with a brief description of what makes it different, so users could then browse the same core question, and pick between slight variations on the same page. This could turn the question into more of an all-purpose guide for solving the problem throughout all the versions of the software and OS combinations on one page instead of separate pages. Although it might make the page confusing and harder to navigate.