Show HN: We are building a home for questions too subjective for Stack Overflow

Re:Show HN: We are building a home for questions too subject... by cewawa on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:26PM (#5167604)

Good idea. I often have questions where I'd like to canvas the views of other developers. Given the popularity of a lot of closed questions on SO, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

Don't much like the drill-down aspect. When you click on a question (/topics/blahblah), I'd rather see one long single-column page with everything on it. The Select Viewpoint nav bar could stay with you, as you scroll, for convenience.

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Re:Show HN: We are building a home for questions too subject... by StuieK on Monday February 04, 2013 @05:31PM (#5167643)

> Good idea.

Thank you!!

I see where you're coming from with the drill down. The tradeoff we had to make is to handle these types of topics:

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-programming-font

Where there are only a little bit of text and mainly overviews.

And these types of topics:

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-architecture-for-bui...

That are more long form. It's hard to create a view to handle both use-cases, but we will definitely try as you're right that it would be better.

> The Select Viewpoint nav bar could stay with you, as you scroll, for convenience.

Will test that, thanks!

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