Meta question - what about moving the D - Learn Forum to a seperate StackExchange platform?

Martin Tschierschke mt at smartdolphin.de
Fri Oct 18 13:49:03 UTC 2019


On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 13:38:11 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> On Friday, 18 October 2019 at 07:35:21 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
> wrote:
>> I very often end with a solution found on one of the 
>> StackExchange forums like > StackOverflow or AskUbuntu etc.
>
> I have found that StackExchange does often have answers, but I 
> can't say I like asking questions on there, especially if the 
> question is almost-the-same-but-not-the-same as a question 
> asked earlier. In cases like this, I've been told that the 
> previous answer applies to my question, even when it doesn't.
>
> In one instance, a moderator closed my question without reading 
> the details in order to find out that, no, it's not the same 
> question at all... and then refuse to reopen the question when 
> I point this out.
>
> So, although I'll continue to use StackExchange as an 
> historical resource, I would rather not depend on it for 
> getting answers to new questions.

This is why I am for an own D Learn Forum, the process is 
(partly) described here:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/76974/how-can-i-propose-a-new-site

The moderators of this should come from this forum community, if 
this can not be achieved, I am against a move, too.


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