10
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New Site Name and Help Center: Phase I Complete
In "follow up 2" discussion the plan seemed to be that we are going to have words
not code troubleshooting
in the site tagline, looking about like that:
Is this still the plan?
8
votes
Accepted
Bug: incorrect links in 'What topics can I ask about here?'
Since we were renamed from Programmers to Software Engineering, there was a mapping from the old domain name to the new one. But it looks like when the HTTPS rollout happened and they had to put the ...

Thomas OwensMod
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Accepted
add "finding a good book for ____" to off-topic section
The line now reads:
where to find a software library, tool, book, research paper, blog, forum, or other resources
The link goes to the same meta post as before.

Thomas OwensMod
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Add a 'ideal' or 'mission statement' to the help/on-topic
IMHO this won't change anything. People who come to "Programmers" for asking debugging questions are too ignorant to care for the site rules - they either don't read them at all, they do not ...
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vote
add "finding a good book for ____" to off-topic section
Objective evidence provided in the initial discussion does show that "book recommendation" Q&A's as they are now are generally sub-par and unhelpful in the long or even the short run.
They tend ...
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