Timeline for Is the Ask Ubuntu community generally more friendly than Stack Overflow - If so, why?
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| Jun 7, 2023 at 13:01 | comment | added | Random Person | "conversions"? Did you mean conversations? | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:31 | comment | added | edwinksl | @JacobVlijm You raised good points and I think the best way is to somehow ask the new users how they feel while using the site, since most of us active on meta aren't new and don't truly understand what a new user knows/prioritizes when using AU. I appreciate that you follow up with OPs and I think that's something we all can/should do more often. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:24 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | ...Even when a voted decision is correct, we should take more effort to point the way "what next". That's why I tend to leave a comment, to ask if the linked dupe solves the issue, if not why not etc. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:20 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @edwinksl I must say almost daily, I run into situations (looking at new users) that I would feel as quite un- welcoming. We often forget situations look different to us because we know the way, the way to mods, the way to meta, the way to let people know we don't agree with a voted decision. Newcomers don't, I can assure you. The site feels quite different then. I remember being totally pissed because on of my first questions was marked as a dupe, after I explained why it wasn't. The message "ask a new question" isn't very encouriging then. See it happen on a daily base. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 11:00 | comment | added | edwinksl | @JacobVlijm It stands for minimal complete verifiable example. The details are at stackoverflow.com/help/mcve. I hope AU is now friendlier than it was back in your days. :) | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 10:59 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | @edwinksl what is an mcve? Anyway, experience was different for me. Both AU and SO. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 10:17 | comment | added | Oli Mod | Coffee is an acceptable beverage for the swift delivery of caffeine but it seems to only have two states: hipster and awful. I own a ceramic burr grinder and an Aeropress so you can easily infer which side I lean towards. I don't roast my own beans (matron!) so I'm still a few steps off buying my first coffee-monocle. Conversely, you don't have to don a top hat to enjoy drinking tea. Tea has class of its own. And there is clear distinction between different, good teas that you don't have to spend £100+ to enjoy at home. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 10:01 | comment | added | edwinksl | @JacobVlijm I have been looking bottom-up on both SE and AU for a while and I can categorically say the situation does not look pretty in SO at all while it is way better in AU. In SO, people who don't provide MCVEs can basically expect tons of downvotes and snide remarks. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @edwinksl unfortunately I have experienced bad "coffee" almost every time I went north of the Alps... Do not put too much trust on all Europeans on this issue. :) The solution for this very bad bug is buying an espresso machine. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 9:55 | comment | added | edwinksl | @AndreaLazzarotto Coffee is abysmal in the US, but I have got to make do with what I have. There is no question I am European at heart when it comes to coffee although I am not in Europe physically. :D | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 9:52 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | @edwinksl please tell me that you are not one of those people who considers American mugs filled with dirty water to be coffee. :D OK joking apart, coffee is noble and nothing bad will happen to us. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 7:20 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | The funny thing is that when I started, the first impression on AU was much more rude than on SO. If I remember well the bounty on a question of mine by Jorge was what made me believe in the site, and kept me here. Without that experience, I think I would have left. The site looks more friendly top-down than the other way I believe. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 5:42 | comment | added | edwinksl | @Oli I see you keep talking about tea, but what about coffee? Will bad things happen to us coffee people? | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 5:36 | comment | added | Oli Mod | We're not moving. We'll still be European. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 0:35 | comment | added | Andrea Lazzarotto | «not their fault they fell out in the wrong country» ROTFL :D Well, at least I can still be European in the future. :) | |
| Jul 31, 2016 at 23:42 | history | edited | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2016 at 23:20 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |