SuperUser now open to the public: it's the StackOverflow site for power users

http://superuser.com/

by prakash • 17 years ago

38 19 17 years ago

superuser.com

trapper• 17 years ago

Love the idea and hope it goes well. I can't see myself using it until that horrid bogey yellow is changed though!

axod• 17 years ago

It's verging on baby-diarrhea color :/ Nausea inducing.

akirk• 17 years ago

Also the rounded rectangles for the tags drive me crazy.

I thought that I liked their graphics designer, as I liked the visual appeal of both stackoverflow and serverfault. Now it feels like they did not pick the right combination on http://kuler.adobe.com/ this time :)

Nervetattoo• 17 years ago

Add in that the color for tags and the title is nearly the same. And the more views the more of a "warning color" the count gets. Seems rather opposite.

Maciek416• 17 years ago

note: If you're already a StackOverflow user, you can bootstrap your account with some reputation points by associating your Super User account with your StackOverflow account.

pmorici• 17 years ago

How is this for power users? it looks the same to me.

mshafrir• 17 years ago

From the About page: Super User is a Q&A site for computer enthusiasts

aw3c2• 17 years ago

It's the same text like on StackOverflow.

I too do not see any "super" difference in the content.

bbsabelli• 17 years ago

Jeff is an amazing guy. But, he clearly does not value design.

aichcon• 17 years ago

Not necessarily true. He may just be prioritizing releasing new functionality and sites over improving the design for now.

swilliams• 17 years ago

The design on Stack Overflow is pretty good: minimal, simple, doesn't get in the way. I believe they hired it out to a 3rd party.

However, the color schemes on all the other sites, just aren't quite as good, superuser being the worst. Amazing what difference just a little bit of color makes. The logo on Superuser looks a little amateur in my opinion too, especially considering the other ones that were submitted.

Vitaly• 17 years ago

What I don't understand is why did they create a separate site per topic. With separate user account! This is very inconvenient and complicates things for the users. having it as a 'category' within the same site would be much better for usability (and for SEO :)

gojomo2• 17 years ago

As they all use OpenID, the accounts can be the same if desired -- but they've managed to keep the reputation scores separate. To the extent the same person might be motivated to repeat their 'achievements' at each site, this might accelerate the creation of answer content.

Also, this might better yield three distinct communities, each with slightly different norms and leaders, than trying to make one mega-community. The mental styles of programmers, sysadmins, and power-users are different; there's no reason to think the three communities will evolve better if merged. (Scale is not always a benefit in online communities.)

DrJokepu• 17 years ago

They're not (and can't) relying on OpenID alone for matching accounts on different sites due to the fact that Google and some other OpenID providers generate a different ID for different hostnames, even for the same user.

GeneralMaximus• 17 years ago

AFAIK, you can use the same account on all websites related to StackOverflow (ServerFault etc.). Isn't this the case with SuperUser?

gnosis• 17 years ago

Most of the entries on that site seem to be about Windows/Macs.

Anyone know of a similar Linux/UNIX-themed site?

nomoresecrets• 17 years ago

Yes, superuser.com.

Seriously, it just opened. Go post some Linux/UNIX themed questions!

SuperUser now open to the public: it's the StackOverflow site for power users

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