Answers to: Welcome to the new LinuxExchange

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

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.

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.

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.

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