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Old 08-27-2018
Your Favorite Tech Support Web Sites and Why?

Where do you go to participate in technical discussions besides UNIX.COM and why?

Personally, I do not really participate in other forums and discussion boards, but I do ask questions from time to time on Stack sites. The problem I have with Stack is that my questions are never answered on any topic; so perhaps they are not the standard, beginner questions that we often see. Or, perhaps I not good at asking questions, haha.

This means for me, I normally get my tech answers from a Google search or watching a tutorial video; because I have very bad luck asking questions and getting answers in forums and other discussion sites.

I also find Stack sites to be really restrictive, because these sites do not really promote back and forth discussions, but they are rather "post a question and vote up the best answer" sites. So, when I try to post on any of these kind of sites, I cannot get any sense of community; but that's me I guess; maybe others have better experiences?

I do like the fact that the Stack sites are not forum based but taxonomy (tag) based, so there is no need to post in a particular forum or designed area on the site; but just tag the post with one or more keywords and go.

Also, on the Stack sites, I have difficulty with code tags and other BB code tags; and sometimes I really struggle to get code posted. This means for me, I often get good information from Stack but only from a Google search referral, but rarely, to almost never, get my written questions answered.

How about about you?

Where are your favorite tech discussion hangouts and why?
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Old 08-28-2018
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Originally Posted by Neo
Where are your favorite tech discussion hangouts and why?
I am old and my nerdness has worn off over time. I prefer to hang out in person *) with people like me. I have a "regular's table" for UNIX and Linux admins and most of the tech questions i am interested in are discussed there.

Speaking about tech questions: 30 years ago i was interested in things like how to save a few CPU cycles in an echo canceller on a DSP but today i am more interested in "strategic" things: how to most efficiently run datacenters, DevOps methods, etc.. Such topics are less a matter of "factual know-how" but more driven by paradigmatical issues and generally "soft issues". Internet forae rarely have such topics, probably because there is no "one true answer" to such questions. If i want to know "how to change this format into that" then there are at best a handful of ways and all of them can be tested to either work or fail. A question like "how to organise a data center" is answered by something that is much less "true" or "false".

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Old 08-28-2018
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*) in this adventure game with the bad gameplay and the phantastic graphics called reality

That's a good answer but it's a bit off topic for the question I posed, which was about forums, websites and other online discussion groups (like this one):


Your Favorite Tech Support (Web) Sites and Why?


I'm sure many people here participate in other web sites and forums like this one, and I want to know which ones they like, why they like them (or don't like them) and what features we can add that would be helpful here (primarily on the user side, not the moderator / admin side).
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Old 08-28-2018
To be honest, the only forums I've subscribed to are this one and the UbuntuForums one; and the only one I regularly read is this one.

As for asking questions, I did ask a few in the Solaris sub-forum last year, but that is the exception. Normally I just type my question into google and look to see which are the most relevant answers. That is probably how I found this forum in the first place.

Andrew
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Old 08-28-2018
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As for asking questions, I did ask a few in the Solaris sub-forum last year, but that is the exception. Normally I just type my question into google and look to see which are the most relevant answers.
Same here. Normally Google and look around until I find an answer; and for the newer technologies, watch YouTube video tutorials.

Like I said, when I ask tech questions in most other forums including all the stack* sites, I rarely get a reply; or I get a reply which is off-base and not helpful.

When I was refreshing my Javascript and jQuery coding recently, I found everything I needed from Google searches and YT.

When I see other forums like this one (like all the legacy vB forums, etc) this site is much better. But when I compare to the "newer generation" taxonomy-driven forums, I often feel I should change our forums to be taxonomy (tag) driven versus centered around hard-coded forums; but I'm not sure if that would make much difference - although it might force posters to tags their questions and posts more often, LOL
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Old 08-28-2018
The only other site I use for Android community is:

Android Forum for Mobile Phones, Tablets, Watches & Android App Development - XDA Forums

If you want to access the forum from the home page then you press the 'forum' button. If you want to make Android phones behave the way you want then it's where the expertise is. This site has changed beyond all recognition over the last couple of years.

For all other Unix/Linux O/S's, unix.com is the place to be.
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Old 08-28-2018
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I took a look at that forum. Seem like a legacy vanilla forum and it's not easy on the eyes, LOL.

Thanks for the kind words about this corner of the many tech hangout spaces.

I'm ready to move to Phase II in my renovation of this site, but don't have a clear idea of what to code, LOL or what important features to add.

ROTFL
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