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Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« on: October 08, 2014, 05:42:40 am »
Hi all,

I attended the EA User Group Europe meeting in Munich today, and noticed a number of complaints about the low quality of this forum:

  • Advanced search is too slow, limited.
  • Sorting of results by relevance is bad.
  • Obscure user voting system.
  • ...

Well, since the Sparx Experts and moderators are around here, this is what will keep up the usefulness and quality of this forum. Though the technical base (YaBB), probably isn't the best choice nowadays.

I'd like to invite everyone, who's frustrated by this forum, to have a look at the

StackExchange SO [enterprise-architect tag]

The community there is growing well, and you'll recognize a number of members who are around here also.

Best regards,
Günther
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2014, 08:05:37 pm »
Too bad. There's also a group on Google and one on LinkedIn. So should I monitor all those groups? It's a real shame that Sparx neglects its forum. Its a real USP but they don't see it.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2014, 09:26:45 pm »
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So should I monitor all those groups?

IMHO the currently best engine for generating a useful and searchable Q&A format is StackExchange. LinkedIn or Google Groups aren't significantly better than this YaBB billboard.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2014, 12:33:39 am »
Well I don't think it's quite fair to say that Sparx neglect this forum -- it is a user forum after all, which they host for free, and their representatives spend quite a bit of time answering questions here.

The forum is a place to discuss EA-related things, but it isn't an official way to get in touch with Sparx support, nor a way to send feature requests, and those (usually new users) who don't make that distinction, which is printed in bold on the forum's front page, tend to get frustrated.

That said, I do agree that for pure Q&A Stack Exchange is a better platform, and I do encourage others to go there and post questions. I certainly answer far more questions on SO than I do on this forum.

SO is mainly about programming, so "the best Stack Overflow questions have a bit of source code in them," but questions regarding "software tools commonly used by programmers" are also accepted. There is a UML tag as well for more generic notation type questions. (Quotes from http://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic.)

So come on down! The Chimp and I are ready to receive. :)

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2014, 09:12:21 am »
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Well I don't think it's quite fair to say that Sparx neglect this forum -- it is a user forum after all, which they host for free, and their representatives spend quite a bit of time answering questions here.

Please! Don't get me wrong about this point.
I didn't really mean to say that, but just that the mechanics of this forum regarding search, and result sorting, don't work comparingly well here vs. StackExchange.

Of course there are a lot of valuable answers to be found here, buried deep under [highlight]YaBB(a) the Hutt's[/highlight] grave.



@Uffe We'll probably meet over (down [under?])  there! I'll promise to have a daily view in the tag queue from now on.

Best regards,
Günther

PS.: Yes, I'm just bumping here. And I may do frequently in the future  ;D!
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #5 on: October 17, 2014, 10:10:11 am »
Time to bump, it seems.

;-) cya there ...
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #6 on: October 17, 2014, 04:49:17 pm »
I must admit, after trying out StackOverflow for a few days, that it is much more rewarding to answer questions there then it is on this forum.

Their system of reputation, voting, privileges etc... really works.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2014, 04:06:46 am »
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Their system of reputation, voting, privileges etc... really works.

I'm always tempted to upvote, when I'm coming back here and see a good answer  :P ...
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2014, 04:12:31 am »
Haha. I once left this forum because of this lousy (newly introduced) voting system which had put me from a top poster to an average poster. I was not amused.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2014, 04:16:31 am »
How can I display new questions related to EA in SO? Clicking the EA tag only shows all questions regardless whether they were already answered or not.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2014, 05:00:53 am »
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How can I display new questions related to EA in SO? Clicking the EA tag only shows all questions regardless whether they were already answered or not.

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For me the view for Questions tagged with enterprise-architect looks like this:



These lists the very latest questions that were tagged with [enterprise-architect].
As you see there are also other views available, e.g. the 'unanswered' may be interesting for you.


As for your previous post:
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I once left this forum because of this lousy (newly introduced) voting system ...

Yes, you'll also have to start out reputation new there. Which could get you kind of frustration.
But as experienced you are, I think you should gain rep quickly, answering questions tagged with [enterprise-architect] and/or [uml].

I'd really appreciate so see you around there!
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2014, 05:25:22 am »
I have also created a new lounge chat-room on SO.

Everyone is invited to discuss with the Sparx Systems Forum refugees there!

Best regards

Günther ([ch960][ch940][ch957][ch964][ch945] [ch8165][ch949][ch8150])
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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2014, 07:33:13 am »
Let's see if I can earn my 20 reputation points to be able to talk there  :D So far I was just searching SO for this and that...

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2014, 05:42:29 pm »
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Let's see if I can earn my 20 reputation points to be able to talk there  :D So far I was just searching SO for this and that...

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That shouldn't be too hard. I earned about 400 in a week.

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Re: Promotion of SO Enterprise-Architect tag
« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2014, 08:23:35 pm »
You didn't leave me a question to answer ;D

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