The first experience of using the StackExchange platform
Many are familiar with the site Stackoverflow.com - questions and answers for programmers. Not so long ago, they launched the StackExchange platform, on the basis of which everyone can build their website of questions and answers on any topic.
StackExchange costs money (from $ 129 per month), but at beta time is free. I'll tell you about the first impressions of the service.
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Brief background. We have a website with articles for beginner web developers: WebCheatSheet.com. (cheatsheet is a cheat sheet, not what you thought).
Recently, I decided to start building a community on it. The choice came between the forum and the question and answer site. The forum is somehow too Web 1.0, chose the latter.
It took me a couple of days to tweak the CSS to a minimum so that I could somehow make it prettier. The default color schemes are pretty dull. This is what happened: http://ask.webcheatsheet.com
Further more difficult, you need to attract people and fill the site with questions.
To attract a little public, I decided to donate 500 dollars for prizes and arrange a contest. In addition to the actual promotion, it was also interesting to learn how contests work in general. In addition to his prizes, he wrote to several other companies and offered to sponsor with licenses for software. Responded to Navicat, Webyog, Topstyle, CoffeeCup, Balsamiq, well, from his company threw more.
The contest runs until December 7, then I will tell you about the results. Look at the prizes and conditions here . By the way, the prizes are real, participation is encouraged.
I will sum up. In general, I am pleased with how this thing works. Google started picking up pages within a few days and even sends some traffic. If you have any questions about setting up, on http://meta.stackexchange.com, an intelligent community will be prompted, for example, how to connect Google Analytics or set up cross-posting on Twitter.
Think about creating such a website for the niche in which you work. This can be a good help in attracting new customers. Here is a practical complete list of sites on this platform.
They have no international version yet. There were people who invented a method of localizationthrough the anus using javascript.
I can not say about the Russian version of the site of questions and answers for programmers - askdev.ru . The author did not just copy stackoverflow, but added some nice social features and it works.
StackExchange costs money (from $ 129 per month), but at beta time is free. I'll tell you about the first impressions of the service.
')
Brief background. We have a website with articles for beginner web developers: WebCheatSheet.com. (cheatsheet is a cheat sheet, not what you thought).
Recently, I decided to start building a community on it. The choice came between the forum and the question and answer site. The forum is somehow too Web 1.0, chose the latter.
It took me a couple of days to tweak the CSS to a minimum so that I could somehow make it prettier. The default color schemes are pretty dull. This is what happened: http://ask.webcheatsheet.com
Further more difficult, you need to attract people and fill the site with questions.
To attract a little public, I decided to donate 500 dollars for prizes and arrange a contest. In addition to the actual promotion, it was also interesting to learn how contests work in general. In addition to his prizes, he wrote to several other companies and offered to sponsor with licenses for software. Responded to Navicat, Webyog, Topstyle, CoffeeCup, Balsamiq, well, from his company threw more.
The contest runs until December 7, then I will tell you about the results. Look at the prizes and conditions here . By the way, the prizes are real, participation is encouraged.
I will sum up. In general, I am pleased with how this thing works. Google started picking up pages within a few days and even sends some traffic. If you have any questions about setting up, on http://meta.stackexchange.com, an intelligent community will be prompted, for example, how to connect Google Analytics or set up cross-posting on Twitter.
Think about creating such a website for the niche in which you work. This can be a good help in attracting new customers. Here is a practical complete list of sites on this platform.
They have no international version yet. There were people who invented a method of localization
I can not say about the Russian version of the site of questions and answers for programmers - askdev.ru . The author did not just copy stackoverflow, but added some nice social features and it works.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75838/
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