10 votes

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?
gnat's user avatar
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8 votes
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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 Owens's user avatar
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2 votes
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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 Owens's user avatar
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1 vote

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 ...
Doc Brown's user avatar
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1 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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