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user315433

1:30 AM

We aren't going to remove the content immediately. It'll probably be several weeks before we finish with the Q&A links, so the content will be on the site for at least that long. It's also still up in the air what we'll do. Our initial plan as presented in the question was crafted with significant time pressure. We certainly didn't decide (or even suspect) until recently that Documentation needed to end. Our final plan may very well look different. Stay tuned. — Jon Ericson ♦ 6 mins ago

user315433

1:49 AM

Pressure... I guess DAG needed resources and Docs were the logical place to take them from.

user202362

2:12 AM

you need to stop discriminating against round people ...

John Militer

2:37 AM

Oy!

Shog9

2:50 AM

@TravisJ Afaik, they never went away. Just... Taken for granted.

@ShadowWizard please see: chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/6240148#6240148

user202362

3:06 AM

are you in L.A. @bjb

bjb568

3:31 AM

Yep.

user202362

how long are you going to be there

Journeyman Geek

3:53 AM

I still think testing things ~~in production~~ on SO is kinda silly

Jon Ericson

@Alex Not exactly. Once we made the announcement, we felt it imperative to get the word out as quickly as possible. I treated it like shutting down a site only many times as complicated.

(Not that we've shut down many sites that weren't in private beta for many years.)

@JourneymanGeek At least for Documentation, we learned tons in the first week of public beta that we could never have figured out in the private beta.

Scaling is never linear or extrapolatable.

bjb568

@Telkitty Leaving on Saturday.

Journeyman Geek

4:16 AM

@JonEricson documentation is essentially a new/seperate product but a lot of the issues with a new site/project to me at least, is the culture around it. Oh, and complaints about cheese moving.

Obviously - definite bias on my part from being primarily around SU and the smaller sites - and I've not exactly been keeping track of the stuff happening on SO...

and stuff like documentation might be useful for devs outside the context of SO. Pretty sure a few use SU for documentation/support

Inc.

and Apple, and Android, ~~and Windows Phone~~

Journeyman Geek

it ain't dead, its pining for the fjords

user315433

4:50 AM

Android is really a ghost town

user315433

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Technical Communication

Proposed Q&A site for technical writers, content developers, engineers, scientists, and other professionals involved in the process of creating assets for documentation, education, and presentations of technical subjects.

Currently in commitment.

user315433

Originally Documentation, but renamed because that name was already taken. Now what.

Journeyman Geek

tbh, technical communication is a better name

user315433

Astronomy gets spammed more recently, because someone's script hits Apple, Ask Ubuntu, and Astronomy in quick succession, then gets blocked.

user315433

Day after day after day

user310756

5:47 AM

How does Shog appear in chatrooms at opportune moments? What kind of powers does the man have???

user202362

scripting power of course ...

user202362

sHog and his 99 bots

user310756

@Telkitty but what the dickens is he listening for?

user310756

he appeared out of the blue here

Journeyman Geek

Some mysteries are better left unpoked

user310756

5:59 AM

Like an ant hill or a wasps nest?

user310756

or an angry wrestler?

Journeyman Geek

or worse. A shog

user310756

hm yes

user315433

6:30 AM

@Alex It may not look like a lot in absolute terms, but the spam rate growth is (⌐■_■) astronomical.

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