Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation

Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by OzzyB on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:44AM (#14918681)

There seems to be an "Overflow" for pratically everything these days, so the question is, why can't they make another board for these more general questions and discussions? ITOverflow? WebArchitecture?

There a are people discussing the correct usage of English grammar and how to best raise their kids, why not whether NoSQL is really the right solution? Flame Wars?

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by AndrewCHM on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:54AM (#14918743)

They do have overflow for general open ended discussion

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com would probably do best for your sql/nosql thing, e.g. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/54373

https://stackexchange.com/sites worth a browse

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by vfaronov on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:02AM (#14918786)

I don’t think they are for “open ended discussion” though? From https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask:

> You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.

This is sort of the fundamental limit of the format they chose.

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by AndrewCHM on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:22AM (#14918894)

they have that page for all stack exchange sites regardless of content I believe

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask also has it even though it encorages a significant number of answers per question (so, open ended)

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by ceejayoz on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:29AM (#14918930)

Chatty, open-ended stuff can go in the StackExchange chat system, can't it?

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by rspeer on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:58PM (#14921999)

Sounds like banishing it into the abyss. I use StackExchange a lot, and this thread is the first time I've heard it has a "chat system".

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by shagie on Thursday August 03, 2017 @03:18PM (#14922837)

The chat system had been around for a long time. It was introduced by Jeff with the blog post https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/29/do-trilogy-sites-need-...

Question tangent comments get sent there to try to keep the focus on Q&A rather than side back and forth. It's not gone permanently.

There are also persistent chat rooms for various topics. Their archives are easily searchable.

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by Ajedi32 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:37AM (#14919414)

AFAIK none of the StackExchange sites aside from Meta allow "discussion". It's all about questions and answers, discussion is supposed to be confined to chat rooms.

As you said though, there are a few StackExchange sites which deal with more "squishy" topics, like software design or parenting.

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by motoboi on Thursday August 03, 2017 @08:04AM (#14918799)

There is the softwareengineering.stackexchange.com where this type of question is on-topic:

> If you have a question about...

> software development methods and practices > requirements, architecture, and design > quality assurance and testing > configuration management, build, release, and deployment

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Re:Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation by felipeccastro on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:34PM (#14924111)

It would be nice if, instead of closing a question as off-topic and asking it again on another site, there was an option for easily transferring the question from one site to another.

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