Timeline for Which programming languages are appropriate here?
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| Dec 15, 2020 at 16:13 | comment | added | Tim | "all of the communities are described in terms of the people that read and write the questions and answers, not in terms of the subject matters." Now I have better understanding of the sentence. If you want to include *nix system programming questions here, please keep pushing. Changes always happen from the bottom up. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | kbulgrien | Frankly, this answer seems to present the most useful non-obvious points given that (at this time) the other answers by Stephen Kitt and peterh appear largely self-evident based on a reading of the scope page. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 16:32 | comment | added | Philip Couling | Saying that "it hasn't sunk in" is needlessly personal. I fully understand your point. I think it's wrong. You edited to reference this page. Quoting from that page (emphasis theirs not mine): "The whole point of these sites is to form a community around specific topics.". I think that actually says the opposite of what you want. It says the sites are divided by topic first, and the readership forms around it. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 13:17 | comment | added | ilkkachu | @JdeBP, erh, I don't believe the way the site is documented in any way reflects what has "sunk in" for me (though the opposite might apply). I was only pointing out that what you're saying is not exactly clear from what SE itself presents. Also, my name is Ilkka, and my username is ilkkachu, and I'll thank you to use that username. (I'm sure you know you can just type @ and the first letter and then hit tab to autocomplete it. Works at least on a desktop browser, maybe not on a phone.) | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 12:41 | comment | added | Tim | Wait, what is the third mathematics site? On the same vein, isn't it that there are three computer science sites? | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 12:38 | comment | added | Tim | Speaking of topics, it is the interdisciplinary nature of multiple stackexchange sites that needs more recognition. Speaking of readership, related sites don't necessarily have the same audience, which is up to personal browsing habit. All of which merely demonstrates that cross posting should be allowed. | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 10:14 | comment | added | JdeBP | All of which merely demonstrates that it hasn't sunk in for M. Couling and ikkachu yet. It took a while for the penny to drop for me, too, and as I said it's the thing that people stumble over. But it has been the case all along, and is in fact the reason for seeming-oddities like the overlap with AskDifferent and AskUbuntu, and why there are three mathematics, two English language, and two computer science sites. | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 10:09 | history | edited | JdeBP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2020 at 9:28 | comment | added | ilkkachu | "Stack Exchange divides up by readership"... well, yeah, maybe. But the title on that help page is "What topics can I ask about here?" | |
| Jul 31, 2020 at 8:17 | comment | added | terdon Mod | I would certainly change "user" to "user or administrator", but not to "programmer", no. | |
| Jul 30, 2020 at 21:47 | history | answered | JdeBP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |