Re:Ask HN: room for a new forum platform?
by retube on Friday August 20, 2010 @12:47PM
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Thanks for the very detailed response. My comments - and some are "devils advocate":
- Agreed that a Saas offering has lots of cost/admin benefits. But - it makes it difficult to integrate with a sites existing signed-up member-base or social network.
- What are examples of feature bloat? What are the key/core features?
- What would be the equivalent of a room on Stackoverflow? I think that SO is really just one room, with a lot of questions in that one room (ignoring tags)?
GetSatisfaction - can't comment. I thought this was more about feedback wrt to a website or business, as opposed to a fully fledged discussion thread, hosted say on a national newspaper (an ultimate customer here)
I've never used Quora (fb only sign-up). What's the key differences between Quara and a forum or Stackoverflow?
- Agreed that a Saas offering has lots of cost/admin benefits. But - it makes it difficult to integrate with a sites existing signed-up member-base or social network.
- What are examples of feature bloat? What are the key/core features?
- What would be the equivalent of a room on Stackoverflow? I think that SO is really just one room, with a lot of questions in that one room (ignoring tags)?
- Invite mechanism - yes. - FB/Google login/interface - yes. - Email notifications - yes
GetSatisfaction - can't comment. I thought this was more about feedback wrt to a website or business, as opposed to a fully fledged discussion thread, hosted say on a national newspaper (an ultimate customer here)
I've never used Quora (fb only sign-up). What's the key differences between Quara and a forum or Stackoverflow?