<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Nathan and Matt,<div><br></div><div>I've never used SO (or indeed heard of it until I saw the twitter thread) and I'm very open to being convinced of its merits.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I'm also a bit concerned about fragmenting our Q&A. For example, if I have a problem with yt, one of the first things I do is hit the "search the mailing list" box on the doc page.</div><div><br></div><div>e.g. <a href="http://www.google.com/cse?cx=010428198273461986377:xyfd9ztykqm&ie=UTF-8&q=elizabeth+has+a+problem&sa=Search&siteurl=yt-project.org/docs/2.5/&ref=yt-project.org/community.html&ss=5151j1127787j37#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=elizabeth%20has%20a%20problem&gsc.page=1">http://www.google.com/cse?cx=010428198273461986377%3Axyfd9ztykqm&ie=UTF-8&q=elizabeth+has+a+problem&sa=Search&siteurl=yt-project.org%2Fdocs%2F2.5%2F&ref=yt-project.org%2Fcommunity.html&ss=5151j1127787j37#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=elizabeth%20has%20a%20problem&gsc.page=1</a></div><div><br></div><div>Now that is pretty simple. What is SO offering that beats that? </div><div><br></div><div>Elizabeth </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 17, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Matthew Turk <<a href="mailto:matthewturk@gmail.com">matthewturk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Nathan,<br><br>On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <<a href="mailto:nathan12343@gmail.com">nathan12343@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br><br>I recently subscribed to the [yt] tag on StackExchange. Now, whenever a<br>question is asked using this tag on any StackExchange site, I will get an<br>e-mail about it, just like if a question is asked on the users or dev list.<br>Currently (as far as I can tell) zero questions have been asked using this<br>tag...<br><br>If there are a few others who are interested in subscribing to the tag, I<br>think it might be worthwhile to add StackOverflow to the website and docs<br>where we describe how to get help and also announce on the user’s list that<br>StackOverflow is an alternate place to ask questions.<br><br>While this might split the community somewhat - not everyone will be<br>subscribed to StackOverflow and thus might miss useful info - I think moving<br>some helpful suggestions to StackOverflow will massively improve<br>googleability of common yt issues, allowing us to avoid answering the same<br>questions over and over again.<br><br>It might also be worthwhile to ask and answer some common yt questions. Off<br>the top of my head, I think we could at least answer how to load various<br>types of datasets into yt.<br></blockquote><br>In principle, I'm okay with this. But I have a few concerns --<br><br>1) I don't think the tag "yt" can be created unless someone with high<br>reputation does so. (<br><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-tags">http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-tags</a> )<br>2) We have well-defined usage metrics that we can quantify based on<br>mailing list activity, so this may fragment that.<br>3) Many of the existing contributors and users don't want another inbox.<br><br>*However*. SO is really quite good for evolving questions and for an<br>updateable reference. I do really like that aspect. But I think we<br>may find ourselves getting a bit fragmented -- in fact, what I see as<br>being a possible outcome is that if yt does end up growing into an<br>interdisciplinary space, we'd see people from non-Astro disciplines<br>using it, but retaining our original core audience here. All your<br>points really are good ones.<br><br>I don't know. Could be awesome. And, I'd like to see us embrace more<br>modern and useful methods of communication and outreach. So ... I<br>guess the experiment could be a good one!<br><br>-Matt<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br>-Nathan<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>yt-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org">yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org</a><br>http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org<br><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>yt-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org">yt-dev@lists.spacepope.org</a><br>http://lists.spacepope.org/listinfo.cgi/yt-dev-spacepope.org<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>