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Re: emacs stackexchange beta site
From: |
Udyant Wig |
Subject: |
Re: emacs stackexchange beta site |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Sep 2014 00:23:51 +0530 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
| In principle, because they are centralized services, therefore single
| points of failure, or worse, of control (spying, censuring).
I can accept that they are single points of failure.
The point about spying could be applied to any forum, e.g., this very
newsgroup: any agency could be monitoring it. Did I misread the last
point?
| Also, they're not present a unique (or a small number of) interfaces,
| but each web site has it's own interfaces (user interface or API).
| Therefore they are very hard to use, compared to NNTP API to which
| each user can apply consitenly the user interface he chooses.
|
| Also, sociologically, the fact that it's easy to find error messages
| or other help on Google/SX makes system authors LESS motivated to
| provide working and documented systems in the first place.
|
| This is not a good thing.
I can accept both of these as well.
| Notably, it only works for popular systems. And error messages are
| not discriminating of the various situations: often I have an error
| message and find on SX ten different situations where it was issued,
| and none matching mine. In the end, I still have to debug by myself.
I have faced this many times, too.
| Google/SX, it's the blind leading the blinds.
Now, given that Emacs has (fine) manuals, comes with sources, has a
community spread over many newsgroups and mailing lists, has the Emacs
Wiki, and has a presence on IRC, how then is the announcement to be
viewed? Positively, negatively, or neutrally?
--
Udyant Wig
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