Move questions to StackOverflow

[gaearon]

I'm considering no longer allowing questions in issues.
What I think we should do instead is direct people to Redux tag on StackOverflow, and help people there.

We should also populate it with questions that are common in this repo, but don't seem to exist there.

If you'd like to help with this, please go over the question tag in this repo and post links to the common questions you think are worth moving as a comment to this issue.

[S-YOU]

+1

[olegakbarov]

That would really increase readability, so +1.

[hartzis]

I definitely like this idea, +1. Here are my choices to be moved:

#779
#775
#774
#771 ( particularly like when you mention Don't feel trapped in functions that ship with Redux.)
#729
#596

[timdorr]

I agree. Especially when it comes to design pattern or questions involving related libraries. It can dilute a lot of the core discussion.

[omnidan]

👍

[vuongtran]

+1

[timdorr]

We've been doing this over on react-router to keep questions in the right channels: remix-run/react-router#2631 (comment)

SO and Discord are better outlets for support-style questions. They get answered faster and get seen by more people, at least from what I've found. So, having questions mixed in with real bug reports and core discussion is doing them a disservice and ends up with dissatisfied users, which is bad for everyone.

[ellbee]

I think this is a good idea. The linked React Router boilerplate answer is good, I would be happy to adopt that.

[dexwiz]

👎 for SO

The community in Stack Overflow often is quick to close a question because its a vague duplicate or not specific enough. Open ended discussions are often shut down. And if the question is not answered, it quickly disappears from the 'front page'. Its only a side effect of Google that the site is still so popular. But cultivating a decent community there is next to impossible now.

[gaearon]

This is exactly why we want you to have open ended discussions here, and ask specific "this code is not working!" questions on StackOverflow where they belong.

[timdorr]

SO isn't intended for open ended discussion anyways. It's for specific questions with specific answers.

[rossipedia]

👍 😃

[dexwiz]

Apologies for sounding rash. I was under the impression that all conversation besides Bugs/Improvements would be moved to SO.

[gaearon]

We are fine with discussions as long as they are constructive. Generally if you'd like to discuss a novel approach, it's best to back it by a runnable example project or a library we can try. Otherwise discussions tend to go nowhere.

[gaearon]

I think this pretty much happened: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/redux
Closing.

[LucaColonnello]

+1