Google App Engine community support is moving to Stack Overflow

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/Z6XN_64cA7w

by chhantyal • 14 years ago

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chhantyal2• 14 years ago

Google group thread is ugly, code is not highlighted. This move will make life easier.

skeletonjelly• 14 years ago

Most importantly, I can't upvote things!

abraham2• 14 years ago

The newer Groups have up/down votes for questions. It looks like GAE group doesn't have them enabled. You can see it on the Google+ group.

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-plus-developers/JBF...

abraham2• 14 years ago

Groups has code highlighting but you have to use the web interface.

https://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

chhantyal2• 14 years ago

Ah ok, now StackOverflow is trend/standard of Q&A. We know how to use it and don't want spend few minutes to know how to highlight code or upvote post on google groups.

peterknego• 14 years ago

How is this news? It's been announced March 23rd.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/google...

jorgem• 14 years ago

Sounds like they are going directly into the StackOverflow database.

If not, Google should reconsider. A lot of people got screwed when StackExchange dropped support for custom "stack exchanges" a few years ago.

rmc• 14 years ago

There are still custom, thematic stack exchanges.

johansch2• 14 years ago

Based on their own judgement on what is popular or not, in the "community".

codgercoder• 14 years ago

and "a lot of people got screwed" when support for something changed would bother Google why?

eliben• 14 years ago

The SO database is very liberally licensed and available for download, by the way, so it's surely one of the most open ways to store your data.

rbanffy5• 14 years ago

Again?!

tbatterii• 14 years ago

They would probably never say this publicly but I will speculate...

The move is meant to move those(the majority) who would rather send an email off rather than do their own research, or read the docs, to a more appropriate forum.

And google employees can beef up their SO reps for answering the same questions over and over again. There's no incentive in answering most of those kinds of questions on a mailing list. And email is easy to ignore.

indubitably• 14 years ago

If Google buys SO it will suck.

maeon3• 14 years ago

Google beat by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky of Stack overflow in community support? I believe it, Stack overflow is the news.ycombinator of community programming help.

I've been listening to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood's podcasts and frankly, they are the best podcast I've ever listened to. Insightful, funny, creative, enlightening. I've burned the mp3's to CD's for easy listening in the car. All programmers should listen to all of these.

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/

rbanffy5• 14 years ago

My only complain is the episodes are too long for my commute.

I catch their podcast via the IT Conversations aggregator: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/

Very worth listening (and easy to subscribe)

factorialboy• 14 years ago

Does this move by any chance mean that Google is slowly giving up on Google Groups?

Flenser• 14 years ago

No, it's users giving up using forums for Q&A.

jaredsohn• 14 years ago

Google is doing the same for Chrome extension development (http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten...).

nikcub• 14 years ago

even before they made the switch official the AppEngine devs were active SO users and the site had become an unofficial knowledge base for the product.

Google App Engine community support is moving to Stack Overflow

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