w1zard Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Hi,I am just wondering what peoples thoughts would be if someone suggested setting up an LSL scripting QA within stack exchangehttp://area51.stackexchange.com/http://stackexchange.com/sitesHow many people here use stack exchange sites already? Would people be interested ?w1z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Why ask people to look for yet another Q&A site? There are already more than enough places in world and in various forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w1zard Posted July 24, 2011 Author Share Posted July 24, 2011 I didnt ask people to move, it was worded hypothetically. Have you used? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nexii Malthus Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 A stackexchange for LSL is already disabled -- http://openlsl.stackexchange.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 I infrequently browse stack exchange sites, but I don't actively post there... honestly I wouldn't expect much draw since they tend to cater to wider audience topics, and LSL is for the most part only used within SL (or to some extent in various openSim clones that have limited support for it). it's just a bit to application specific I think, which leads into Roligs line of thinking... the existing community is already being very well served between three major forums dedicated to SL topics, all with active LSL scripting communities, so there isn't much draw to leave them. Until LSL sees major use outside of SL I don't see there being a wider draw. in fact it's been a long standing plan (that was partially worked on already) to move away from LSL to something more comon like C# with SL specific extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Sorry. I didn't mean to sound curt or overly dismissive. Void did a much better job of phrasing my feelings in her post. Basically, LSL is an "in house" language of no use to the outside world. The scripting audience is already more than adequately served by this forum, the LSL Library, connections to sections of the technical forums, the LSL wiki, other forums sites (like SLUniverse), MANY in-world scripters groups, educational sites (like Builder's Brewery, the College of Scripting, Music & Science, ...), plus a pile of blogs. I have not used Stack Exchange myself, and doubt that I would bother looking there for yet another place to discuss LSL scripting issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qie Niangao Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 If folks used Google to search for answers to LSL questions, then... But wait. If we wanted to do that, why would we avoid StackOverflow itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 note the dates and density though, they correspond roughly with forum changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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