Timeline for Where do EC2 and AWS questions truly belong?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:57 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ with https://webapps.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.webapps.stackexchange.com/ with https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Dec 23, 2016 at 21:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/812407451349815297 | ||
| Dec 23, 2016 at 12:10 | answer | added | Jenny D | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 10:14 | vote | accept | jonsca | ||
| Dec 23, 2016 at 9:16 | answer | added | allquixotic | timeline score: 21 | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:54 | comment | added | jonsca | The "boiling down" issue is true about a lot of topics on SE in general, for sure. | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:52 | comment | added | jonsca | These were my feelings as well, but I couldn't really pin down where the questions would belong. All of this info is super helpful and should probably go in the Tag Wikis both here and on WA. | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:50 | comment | added | allquixotic | Another problem is that many questions don't boil down to the actual topic that's relevant to the question until you actually know what you're doing. For instance, "How do I install Apache on Ubuntu on EC2?" is almost guaranteed to be completely orthogonal to the fact that you're using EC2; it's like saying "How do I open the gas tank on my Ford Taurus in Canada?" -- well, the same way you'd do it anywhere else, dummy. :-) But people often don't know which parts of their environment are relevant vs. irrelevant, so they direct their question to the wrong place. | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:48 | comment | added | allquixotic | I think the problem (which isn't going to go away, ever, unfortunately) is that people who don't know the IT technology sites' topic domains very well are going to just ask their question on the first site they land on, which, let's be honest, will probably be Stack Overflow. But if their question is specific to EC2 (managing instances, using EC2 APIs, setting up SSH keys, etc.) then it probably belongs either on Server Fault, or, in the case of using AWS APIs, on Stack Overflow. Try explaining these two comments to a new EC2 user to show them which site they should ask on! Sheesh! | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:46 | comment | added | allquixotic | I agree the pointer to webapps should be removed from the tag wikis. As someone who uses EC2 quite a bit, I agree that there's no way I'd (as an experienced SE user) ever ask my EC2 question on webapps. I'd either ask it on unix.SE, Super User or Server Fault depending on the exact nature of the question. For instance, "How do I install Apache on Ubuntu on EC2?" is a unix.SE, Ask Ubuntu, or Server Fault question (or even SU). "How do I use ffmpeg to convert an AVI on Amazon Linux on EC2?" boils down to an ffmpeg question that'd be well on-topic for SU or unix.SE. It really depends. | |
| Dec 23, 2016 at 8:36 | history | asked | jonsca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |