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Referencing Stack Exchange progress on profiles
I invested tremendous resources into producing quality content, and marketing it. Starting from zero to me is excessive.
I'd like some way to display my SE progress directly and visibly on my Codidact profile. What'd appeal to me:
- Display SE stats alongside Codidact's wherever rep + badges are shown. Codidact's on top, SE's on bottom. It doesn't have to stay up-to-date.
- Merge SE Q&A history into Codidact's. Have an icon indicate it's from SE, and the URL goes there instead of somewhere on Codidact. The two categories would be ranked (sorted) equally, such that my SE "top posts" are on top (unless Codidact's outrank them).
I'm not a retired altruist. I need the visibility. If my problems with SE overwhelm me, Codidact isn't my fallback, a personal blog is.
This isn't a demand, I'm brief for clarity. I commend the Codidact effort.
Some references: my SE, my top post
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We are not Stack Exchange.
While we share some ideals with SE, and have a similar Q&A-based system, the two platforms operate differently and with differing goals. The feature sets are different, certain policies are different, and experience from one will not directly translate into experience on the other.
We're building our own platform here, not just Stack Exchange 3.0. It's... unusual, to say the least, for activity on one internet site to directly result in "progress" on a different site. As an example, Mastodon does not import your Twitter followers; you have to grow your reach on the new platform using the principles and features of that system.
When we first started out, we did import posts from Stack Exchange. The authors of those posts, if they joined the Codidact Network, did receive credit - such as reputation and progress towards Abilities - here. However, we soon realized that importing content was not a viable community-building strategy, and we wound up removing most of the content we initially imported.
We're not really looking to further integrate with SE at the moment, especially as we mature and focus on improving our own systems rather than fixing the mistakes of another platform. We'd love to have more people on board, but we're highly unlikely to implement something that displays your history on Stack Exchange.
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