Answers to: Welcome to the new LinuxExchange

Comment by rfelsburg on Ron's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:11:08 -0400

Thanks for the response, these subtle differentiations do make a difference.

Comment by jeremy on Ron's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:02:50 -0400

Tutorials should stay at either LQ or the LQ Wiki. This site is meant to be strictly Q&A and I'd consider that one of its differentiators.

--jeremy

Comment by rfelsburg on Ron's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:03:53 -0400

I already have LE linked in my LQ account, and I know LQ even has a top link that points to LE. While I know lots of people do it, but it might be nice to have a tutorial section, or are we aiming at the whole site be a tutorial section. Thoughts?

Comment by jeremy on Ron's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:56:10 -0400

From on onsite SEO perspective, most things are already properly done here at LE (useful meta data, no duplicate content, consistent URI's, etc). While things like linking from your .signature elsewhere may help a little, I find that kind of thing is a bit overrated. The most important thing we can do is continue to create solid, useful information. This will bring both search engines and more importantly more participating members. From there growth will be natural. Creating and answering common questions will help here, but I'm open to additional ideas.

--jeremy

Comment by rfelsburg on rfelsburg's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:54:29 -0400

No worries, To describe the situation. Steps:

Goto http://linuxexchange.org/questions/2298/linux-windows-dual-boot

Click Retag Tried changing tags to 'dual boot windows7 gnacktrack'

I then get a 500 server error page.

Comment by rfelsburg on rfelsburg's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:54:06 -0400

Agreed, thanks.

Comment by rfelsburg on Ron's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:53:52 -0400

So what would you recommend in terms of promotion of the site? I'm curious from a business standpoint.

Comment by jeremy on rfelsburg's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:28:32 -0400

I can't reproduce this myself, but I can verify that I see you getting a 500 error. I'll have to take a closer look.

--jeremy

Comment by rfelsburg on rfelsburg's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:20:26 -0400

Hmm, I'm still getting a 500 server error, when trying to add new tags while retagging. Happened as of 10:21 EST 2011/04/11

Comment by rfelsburg on rfelsburg's answer

rfelsburg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:17:53 -0400

Yep, looks like all of them have been fixed as far as the 500 error, I haven't tried retagging yet, I'll go back and try that now.

Comment by jeremy on rfelsburg's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:15:29 -0400

It doesn't look trivial to implement this unfortunately. We may want to add this to the OSQA tracker is see if there's any interest in adding it upstream.

--jeremy

Comment by jeremy on Jazz's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:14:40 -0400

Thanks rfelsburg, I'll add your name to the list. See my above note to Jazz as well.

--jeremy

Comment by jeremy on rfelsburg's answer

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:10:30 -0400

Both of these should be fixed. Thanks for the feedback.

--jeremy

Answer by rfelsburg

rfelsburg — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:00:28 -0400

I seem to be running into a couple of errors when trying to click on links for questions I've answered.

For instance:

Time: 2011/04/10 17:58 EST http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1050/search-phrases-in-large-number-of-pdf-files/1051

Throws a 500 server error, also adding tags to an existing question also seem to throw a 500 server error. That one occurred late last night.

-Rob

Comment by rfelsburg on Jazz's answer

rfelsburg — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:53:14 -0400

I'm very interested as well, let me know if I can do anything to help.

Comment by jeremy on Jazz's answer

jeremy — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:12:30 -0400

Thanks Jazz, I'll add your name to the list. I'd suggest getting acclimated with OSQA as much as possible. I'll contact all members interested in a short time to get things rolling. In the meantime, if you have any additional suggestions or comments just let me know.

--jeremy

Comment by Jazz on Jazz's answer

Jazz — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:38:58 -0400

I'm definitely interested in this, and happy to help!

Comment by jeremy on Jazz's answer

jeremy — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:03:18 -0400

As noted in the FAQ, asking and answering your own question is perfectly fine. I'd very much encourage it in fact. Escalating privileges for some trusted members is very much on the roadmap. If you're interested in this please let me know.

--jeremy

Comment by jeremy on jeremy's question

jeremy — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 14:01:23 -0400

Your username has been changed to Jazz.

--jeremy

Comment by jeremy on rfelsburg's answer

jeremy — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:52:34 -0400

I'd prefer a proper fix (and may have found one), but if we can't put something in place we can add a note to the FAQ.

--jeremy

Answer by rfelsburg

rfelsburg — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:23:37 -0400

Now sure how simple this would be, but I would love to see the ability to sort based on questions that have literally no answers, not just no accepted answers.

Comment by rfelsburg on rfelsburg's answer

rfelsburg — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:21:04 -0400

I'm not sure a work around is needed, just maybe something in the faq that states, the new google oid has changed and so you will need to send yourself a temp link, and then associate your google id.

Answer by Jazz

Jazz — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:15:33 -0400

Basically, a lot of improvements were suggested over here. Especially two useful changes would be easy to apply:

Give trusted users the right to vote-close questions.
Ask questions and provide answers yourself.

Both changes would make this site look more active and less like a graveyard for unanswered or drive-by-questions. This also relates to Ron's answer regarding Promotion. If you visit this site for the first time and get the feeling that all questions are either old or unanswered, it's really unlikely that you will participate.

Especially providing answers to your own questions could motivate really interesting discussions and solutions.

Comment by Jazz on jeremy's question

Jazz — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:50:31 -0400

Thanks, jeremy, it works now. Still, could you change my name to "jazz" again? I don't really like the " 1" prefix. If that doesn't work, please change it to "j4zz".

Comment by jeremy on rfelsburg's answer

jeremy — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:32:14 -0400

That's a result of the odd non-standard way Google has chosen to implement OpenID. That being said, I'll see if there's a workaround we can implement from our end.

--jeremy

Answer by rfelsburg

rfelsburg — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:29:33 -0400

There seems to be a bug, where the old google openid no longer works, you have to use a temp link to get in, then re-associate the google login with your account.

Bug, feature, api change?

Not sure.

-Rob

Answer by Ron

Ron — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:24:22 -0400

They key here is to Promote or Perish. Promoting the site is good and done properly, it will get the people here; however, once they are here, then what? What makes THIS place different, unique, worth coming to (or coming to more often) than say StackOverflow, Ubuntu Forums or any other website?

Think of it this way.... thing of this site like a restaurant, it's great if 1,000 people come in the door, but if they don't buy any food because it's not great, unique, tasty, or if there just plain isn't any food to purchase, well, getting all those people in the door is worthless at that point.

get them in and keep them in, that's the key. They may not spend their money here, but they are spending something infinitely more valuable, rare and irreplaceable......their time. Making a million dollars is easy when compared to making more time. You can only shift your attention and focus, your scheduling, but you cannot create more time.

I think some proper SEO work is needed. This in itself is a voodoo science that takes an expert to properly execute.

If you post on another message board, have the URL to this place in your signature as the more posted it is at various sites and threads, the more link-backs we have coming here, the better for the search engines and also for people to directly find us via those links.

tons of other ideas that many books have been written on, to the point I could make a ton of posts filling each one with matter on any given subject.....and I'm no expert, just a businessman.

Comment by jeremy on jeremy's question

jeremy — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:48:04 -0400

Ron's issue turned out to be that he was using his email address instead of username when trying to log in. I've updated your username. If you still have an issue logging in, let me know.

--jeremy

Comment by Jazz on jeremy's question

Jazz — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:13:08 -0400

Hey! I've got the same problem Ron does. Furthermore, my nickname got changed to "jazz 1".

Answer by jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:11:39 -0400

It looks like everything is stable at this point. I'm now interested in any suggestions or feedback any members may have on how we can improve the site and get more participation. It's also likely we'll need to tweak some of the OSQA settings and reputation thresholds - feedback on that is welcome as well. Thanks.

--jeremy