Question

This is more of a feedback: I see this site is forums in better forms(real time activities and all), which is good. However I would like to see fragmentation in topics, I mean computer science is so vast (java, c, verilog -- for me :)). as site gets popular questions can get lost. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I read they are working/thinking about reintroducing a tagging system.

Answer 2

nice that should resolve some issues :)

Answer 3

Yes, we're definitely thinking about how to categorize content in the groups. The biggest problem we face is that the benefit in groups is reaching a large number of people who can help; categorizing can be problematic to that aim. We're trying to come up with a solid way to add categorization so that it is both intuitive and doesn't fragment the groups in such a way that real-time help isn't as easy to get anymore.

Answer 4

For now the CS group is the least of our worries -- there isn't really enough traffic there for true chaos. The math group, on the other hand...

Answer 5

hmmm... catting posts; you already appear to have a sorting method in the all/unanswered/my questions part.

But how to implement an viable method to cat posts by users and an interface, like a dropdown list, to sort them ..... hmm.

Answer 6

database jargon perhaps; assign values to a post thru a dropdown list that has been populated with the obvious choices, and then the can sort the posts by a users request. but im just rambling :)

Answer 7

@Shadowfiend: I've been user to few communities and forums hence I understand exactly what you mean by reaching out to large number of people, thats why I said it would be a problem when site gets popular :)
@amistre64: what would be shown on main page? (I mean 3 choices -- All, Unanswered and My are easy to display, how about all sub categories?)

Answer 8

and can I choose multiple good answers or there is only one good answer?

Answer 9

You can click on `good answer' for any person.

amistre -- that's definitely an option. The fundamental problem is, people are lazy. So, how can we get them to actually pick the right topic? Also, how broad do we go? We're continuing to work through some design ideas and such to see what we can do to make it (1) work and (2) not fragment the community too much.

Answer 10

the display is easy enough:

<select>
<option>Hair</option>
<option>Nails</option>
<option>Pudding</option>
</select>