People often think that a tech having a lot of questions on stack overflow shows it is mainstream so the more the better. What folks don't seem to think about is that a tech that has a lot of traffic might be failing it's community by being overly complex and giving a poor user experience.
There are a few technologies I use that have very little traffic on stackoverflow. I think that is because they are very well designed and documented. It would be nice if stackoverflow could somehow celebrate projects that get it right. Not sure how that could work though 🤔
That is an interesting thought, would you mind sharing some of your knowledge regarding alternatives to git, and/or any other alternatives to popular technologies that do a better job? I'd love to read about them.
Yeah, that's a really good observation! For those technologies, it would probably have to be different ways of engaging beyond technical Q&A. Even among languages/technologies that are well represented on Stack Overflow, it's probably the most unintuitive aspects make up the top issues. For example, pip installing TensorFlow is probably (hopefully) not how machine learning engineers are spending most of their time working with TF, but it constitutes a lot of the questions/pageviews.
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There is a comsci paper about a study into the usability issues with git written up at What's wrong with Git A conceptual design analysis
People often think that a tech having a lot of questions on stack overflow shows it is mainstream so the more the better. What folks don't seem to think about is that a tech that has a lot of traffic might be failing it's community by being overly complex and giving a poor user experience.
There are a few technologies I use that have very little traffic on stackoverflow. I think that is because they are very well designed and documented. It would be nice if stackoverflow could somehow celebrate projects that get it right. Not sure how that could work though 🤔
That is an interesting thought, would you mind sharing some of your knowledge regarding alternatives to git, and/or any other alternatives to popular technologies that do a better job? I'd love to read about them.
Yeah, that's a really good observation! For those technologies, it would probably have to be different ways of engaging beyond technical Q&A. Even among languages/technologies that are well represented on Stack Overflow, it's probably the most unintuitive aspects make up the top issues. For example, pip installing TensorFlow is probably (hopefully) not how machine learning engineers are spending most of their time working with TF, but it constitutes a lot of the questions/pageviews.