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Re:The Stack Overflow Age by nerdponx on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:53PM (#16777795)
The entire Stackexchange network, in my opinion, suffers badly from fragmentation into hyper-specific Q&A sites. Why software recommendations do not fall under the Superuser purview is beyond me.
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Re:The Stack Overflow Age by shagie on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:01PM (#16777851)
Super user has difficulty with recommendations too. The effort upon the community to curate the content on a large site takes a very dedicated team. Past efforts to have such failed and the curation of the question dropped off along with its quality.

Moving software recommendations to its own site allowed a community to form there that was engaged with that curation.

That said, I believe the SO engine fails spectacularly with recommendations. I find https://slant.co to be a better resource that has its engine dedicated to recommendations (rather than Q&A).

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