After a long 600 days, RPG Stack Exchange (RPG.SE) is out of beta. It has a spiffy new design and is ready for your RPG questions and answers.
For those of you not familiar with the Stack Exchange concept, the original Stack Overflow was born out of a hatred for how crappy forums are when you have a real question that needs an answer – not people threadcrapping, or telling you your choice of language isn’t right, or people babbling on about irrelevant stuff, or flamewars over “the best,” and you maybe getting a decent answer on page 10. SO was a huge success, and they’ve expanded (via community voting) to many other kinds of topics.
So if like me you’ve gotten sick of the sheer noise when trying to pose a real question on RPG.net, ENWorld, or the Paizo forums, give RPG.SE a try. You post a question, which can get commented on or edited by you or high rep users, and then answers get voted up/down as well. No babbling or flamewars, just answers, and you get to choose the most helpful and the community gets to vote up the ones they consider the most helpful. I don’t go to forums any more unless I just want to hobnob – the SE format has made me impatient with trying to conduct real Q&A there. Check it out.
You can also follow it as @StackRPG on Twitter!
“You’ve come a long way, baby~”
The new design is really quite impressive. After all the hard work you and the other ‘first responders’ have put in, you must be quite proud of how things have turned out!
Definitely, thanks! Took 600 days but now we’re live and the design is sweet. We should be getting rpg.se swag for cons and stuff soon too.
If you are not careful, you will reinvent the uses for the internet…
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