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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.

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Meta Are code troubleshooting posts allowed?

You are right, the on-topic page is confusing - trouble-shooting and general programming questions should obviously be on-topic! Perhaps we considered it so obvious that it fell between the lines ...

posted 3y ago by Lundin‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2021-03-04T15:13:36Z (about 3 years ago)
You are right, the on-topic page is confusing - trouble-shooting and general programming questions should obviously be on-topic! 

Perhaps we considered it so obvious that it fell between the lines on [What type of questions can I ask here?](https://software.codidact.com/help/on-topic) That on-topic page is still kind of in the draft stages.

We first had a very early draft, for which there was no consensus but lots of discussion: https://software.codidact.com/posts/277235

The first bullet in that initial draft said:

> - Specific programming problems, where the poster includes their own attempts to solve or debug the problem.

Basically the very same deal as SO.

One of our moderators then gathered all what was said in that discussion and re-wrote it. Their original text is found in the question of this post:

[Community feedback: What type of questions can I ask here? ](https://software.codidact.com/posts/278648) (still active, everyone is welcome to contribute & vote)

Now this had become

> - questions related to software design/review...

As per community consensus here https://software.codidact.com/posts/278786#answer-278786, that text was then changed again to:

> - questions about software design, architecture, or modeling

(modeling -> modelling btw)

This does however in retrospect sound like the site is all about big picture design issues, which was never the intention. Perhaps my original bullet, or some version of it, should get re-added to the on-topic list?