Re:Stack Overflow Culture
by vadimberman on Sunday March 18, 2018 @08:33PM
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I wonder how many people can pinpoint where the boundary between the two communities lies.
What does this division help to achieve? The two communities are in exactly the same format.
The distinction between the two is described in the help/on-topic page ( https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic - be sure to follow the links) and various faq tagged pages on the meta - https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/q/6483
The division is there so that questions about design and architecture have a place to get asked that don't get closed as off topic (lacking code) on Stack Overflow. Consider a question like In an agile process, how much work should be done by the PO on a project or feature before presenting it to the team? - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3676...
The format doesn't dictate topicality... there are many sites that use the same format. https://cooking.stackexchange.com for example.
> That's exactly what I want to discuss on SO.
Broad-ish architecturing questions belong on https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ (formerly known as programmers.SE). A good rule of thumb for which of those two sites to go to is, does your question have code?
(Also, "discuss" is a forbidden word on StackExchange - it's Q&A, not discussion)