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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga community support ideas => Topic started by: tenleftfingers on February 21, 2016, 12:35:53 AM

Title: Amiga stack exchange site
Post by: tenleftfingers on February 21, 2016, 12:35:53 AM

I've submitted a proposal for a stackexchange site for Amiga software and hardware here: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/95849/commodore-amiga?referrer=bFOg59rDMEFPjjF5BsNRow2 (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/95849/commodore-amiga?referrer=bFOg59rDMEFPjjF5BsNRow2)

(original discussion here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=81203 )

I think this is a great opportunity to improve accessibility and a better legacy for the Amiga. Please follow. We need five followers within three days or the site will be automatically deleted :hammer:

Title: Re: Amiga stack exchange site
Post by: Matt_H on February 21, 2016, 10:33:52 PM

Er, I haven't heard of StackExhcange until now. But it appears the proposal was unsuccessful. If we need knowledge repositories that don't involve digging through forum threads, my suggestion would be to compile some FAQs and upload them to docs/help (http://aminet.net/docs/help) on Aminet.

Title: Re: Amiga stack exchange site
Post by: tenleftfingers on February 28, 2016, 05:57:37 AM

Hi. Stack Exchange is a designed to be more interactive - sort of like a collaborative FAQ. Yes, the proposal was unsuccessful because of an existing proposal in the retro category already. But an independent site is on the way.

Title: Re: Amiga stack exchange site
Post by: HaukeVB on February 28, 2016, 08:21:43 AM

Quote from: TenLeftFingers;804791

Hi. Stack Exchange is a designed to be more interactive - sort of like a collaborative FAQ. Yes, the proposal was unsuccessful because of an existing proposal in the retro category already. But an independent site is on the way.

Are you implementing your own StackExchange?

BTW It would be nice to have a StackExchange for Amiga related questions, however with the recent copyright problems for uploaded examples I rather not add another ownership issue to the Amiga history :-)

Title: Re: Amiga stack exchange site
Post by: tenleftfingers on February 29, 2016, 12:46:00 AM

Hi HaukeVB (http://www.amiga.org/forums/member.php?u=18542),

Which copyright issues have surfaced relating to online Q&A content? I haven't heard.

Regardless, yes I am setting up a site for this purpose. It's almost ready. If anyone wants to help speed things up, I'm open to suggest/add additional tags here[2]. Tags are very important to this kind of site. Any duplication reduces the value of the original tag and how well it helps a user find the information they want.

2:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzW8bjFUjNRQSkJC54Jpogh-IjW_g29wbTss40VfZYM/edit?usp=sharing