asked 2012-04-27 07:37:58 -0500

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In trying to develop stuff for askbot I would like to ask questions about certain aspects of the code. "Where is this field used?", "Why is this parameter left unset until here?" and that kind of thing.

It seems that many people are posting such questions here, but my feeling is that that isn't something I want to do. The kind of discussions I envisage have no "right" answer that can be voted up or down; it's a discussion that has a flow, and that flow shouldn't be fragmented by group weighting.

This highlights the difference between a Q&A site ("What's the best treatment for atheletes foot") vs a forum ("What are your thoughts on Obama's presidency?")

I would therefore rather see a forum for askbot coders. Perhaps divided into development and deployment. I'm sure other categories could be devised.

Your thoughts?

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To be clear - I prefer to have just one site for the developer discussions and support of DYI users.

Evgeny ( 2012-04-27 10:27:57 -0500 )edit

DYI? Did you mean DIY users?

paulus_almighty ( 2012-04-27 10:56:02 -0500 )edit

ask bot should have categories like abc.com/biology/answer abc.com/chemistry/answer

Pramvir ( 2012-04-27 14:21:04 -0500 )edit

We will make categories, but they will be based on tags. It is a bit awkward to change the urls to the scheme you are suggesting, as we have url for example - "badges" - with the scheme you are suggesting category "badges" would be impossible.

Evgeny ( 2012-04-27 14:26:50 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-04-27 10:26:16 -0500

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Maybe there is a point in that, but right now there is not too much activity here to separate out the discussions.

For now we can tag certain threads as "discussion".

It is possible to keep discussions in the comments, but I agree it is not as convenient to follow a discussion split under several answers and the original post. There may be room for some feature for the discussions, but I would not like to complicate the user interface for the sake of adding this feature.

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What I really had in mind was that we use an alternative "forum" app for developer discussions, rather than integrating something into the site.

paulus_almighty ( 2012-04-27 10:52:55 -0500 )edit

hmm evegny this purpose will deviate the askbot from its main purpose. (its queation answer portal) trying to make it a forum will take it to old trends and a look alike of vanila bb, I just like make categories or bringa feature in askbot such that from one installation many question answer sites can be made. I mean many question answer sites like abc.com/xyz abc.com/123 is not that a cool idea ??

Pramvir ( 2012-04-27 14:24:55 -0500 )edit

current user interface of askbot is really awesome because of its user friendly interface.

Pramvir ( 2012-04-27 14:25:41 -0500 )edit

re: putting topic in the url - it is a good idea, the question is how to implement it without breaking existing functions. Btw - this discussion is off-topic in this thread.

Evgeny ( 2012-04-27 14:32:00 -0500 )edit

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