Comment on Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

• MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The question & answer format requires data that Lemmy just isn’t able to fully replicate as it is.

  Other than marking the correct answer and having user score/badges, there is anything else?

  Also the community editable nature

  You’re right, I just forgot that people can edit your questions and answers.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Presentation matters. Replies to posts about minor items aren’t displayed as prominently. This means the important answers are large and in charge, while debates about the merits of Rust in this situation are pushed away.

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  • natarey@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.

      How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.

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• xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait what i didnt know about any community editable aspect, can you share some examples?

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Basically any member is allowed to edit anyone else’s question or answer. The changes may go up before or after review by mods depending on the member’s trust level. I’ve had my questions changed before. It can be kind of annoying but I understand they’re doing it to maintain some level of quality.

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    • xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that the only difference? That feature doesn’t seem great tbh. I’d love a wiki on lemmy though especially one that integrated to the point you can one click add a question + answer directly to the communities wiki

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, there are a number of differences. There’s questions & answers under which there are comments, and a bunch of other functionality. It’s so different to a standard threaded forum that you may as well build a new system from scratch. I honestly think it would be less work than trying to shoehorn lemmy into this role, and have another fediverse ecosystem built around it.

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• dameoutlaw@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like it would be good to request Discourse and NodeBB to offer similar features

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