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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Discussions and feedback about the site itself in Q&A format.

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Strategy to migrate meaningful content from Stack Overflow

I was thinking about meaningful content that can be migrated (+ improved) from Stack Overflow. These categories pop into my mind: closed questions: we know Stack Overflow is very picky when it co...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Alexei‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Mithical‭

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Getting rid of "company tags" early on

So it appears that we've gotten our first "company tag", Apple. We know from SO that company name tags were always problematic since: Questions are about products, not companies. Given that the pr...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Lundin‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Alexei‭

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"Software Development" to the exclusion of other programming and scripting?

The site is called "Software Development", and the subtitle on the homepage is "General Q&A about software development -- code, design, process, tools, testing, and more". Am I to understand, t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by msh210‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Alexei‭

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How will you balance demanding high quality questions with maximising the number of users?

There is a well know trade-off between a site aiming for questions/answers that are of a high quality and useful for people who arrive from Google and a site being nice to new users who often only ...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Ringi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Ayxan Haqverdili‭

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Code Challenges Category (Code Golfing & others)

I was inspired by the contests on Outdoors and Writing, and thought that having some challenges over here would be fun as well. What do you all think about adding a new category where people can po...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭