Monday, October 17, 2011

Facebook turns into a stack overflow in power developer forums

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If you've ever roved around Facebook developer forums, you may notice that — in addition to loaded with complaints and error messages-they are pretty basic. There's nothing wrong with them per se, but they feel like a pretty universal forum, not a hub for developer on one of the Web's most popular Web platforms.

Today, Facebook announced he is going to fix the situation: this is abandoning its old forums which he said "showing their age, and run custom site on stack overflow, hub, Q&A, which is very popular with programmers (and is loaded with useful content). You can find the new site at facebook.stackoverflow.com.

Benefits of swaps are obvious. Stack overflow has the reliable reputation system, more structured platform Q&A and generally easier to sift through.

Stack Exchange is the parent company of stack overflow, which is a network of 60 + Q&A portals. Post and discuss News stack Exchange Chief Alex Miller writes that this Facebook launch also marks the introduction of a new component to the platform, which allows you to create customizable mini sites.

But facebook. so it's not just a subdomain is a completely new set that we review and works for months. Since the beginning, we have received requests to start a dedicated programming communities for niche topics, but we have always been reluctant to do so for fear of balkanizing the great community we have already. So we came up with a solution that provides the best of both worlds. Now we can create a mini site, selecting the appropriate tags (in this case, anything related to Facebook) and merge only the content of those tags. When you visit the mini-site, you will only see the contents of these tags. Not only you will see only questions related to Facebook, but user pages ranking reputation on the show, earned a reputation only to questions tagged Facebook.


Facebook is the largest social network, with more than 500 million users. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004, originally as an exclusive network for students at Harvard University. She ...

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Stack Exchange is a network of free, community site Q&A. StackExchange was created by the founders of the StackOverflow function. The StackOverflow function is a knowledge sharing community for programmers.

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