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What is the difference between facebook.stackoverflow.com and stackoverflow.com aside from the subdomain and the other title?

Both pages are using the same questions and the same user profiles/information.

On facebook.stackoverflow.com I can also see my questions not related to facebook: http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/12567518/how-to-handle-dynamically-loaded-managed-libraries-in-c-sharp

When I set my favorite tags to some facebook tags and nothing else then is the only difference the title, the icon and the subdomain, or are there notable special features on facebook.stackoverflow.com?

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  • Have you read the FAQ? It's basically a filtered view of SO focusing on Facebook-related tags only.
    – Joachim Sauer
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:05
  • in the review queue, there are questions tagged facebook with comments saying "this is offtopic: ask on facebook.stackoverflow.com" - are those comments just wrong?
    – Kate Gregory
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:12
  • afaik it is possible to ask facebook related questions on stackoverflow and it is also possible to ask facebook unrelated questions on facebook.stackoverflow
    – LostPhysx
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:15
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    @KateGregory: yes, I'm pretty sure they are wrong.
    – Joachim Sauer
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:16
  • You can read all about it in this blog post: blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/08/facebook-stackoverflow
    – Shadow The Spring Wizard
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:20
  • @Paedow true, but on that "sub domain" there are added tweaks and tricks like taking your Facebook profile picture.
    – Shadow The Spring Wizard
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:22
  • And the other side's blog - developers.facebook.com/blog/post/545
    – Lix
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:22
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    @Lix cool, wasn't aware that Stack Overflow replaced Facebook's forums which are now nothing more than spam container... :)
    – Shadow The Spring Wizard
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:23
  • @ShaWizDowArd when i first registered on stackoverflow (approx. 2 months ago) my profile picture automatically synched with my facebook photo, so that´s not only on facebook.SO but the blog entry is very interesting and the entry from facebook itself complains it.
    – LostPhysx
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:25
  • @Paedow yeah, that's because you were using your Facebook account. Anyway, there are benefits in that site see the blog post..
    – Shadow The Spring Wizard
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:26
  • ok, but really now there isn´t any difference xecept of the different settings and some visual stuff
    – LostPhysx
    Oct 17, 2012 at 15:03
  • possible duplicate of Facebook Stackoverflow?
    – Pops
    Oct 17, 2012 at 15:24

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The FSO filter only displays questions containing one of the Facebook related tags.

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  • but this is only on the first page
    – LostPhysx
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:08
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    The logo is also slightly different :)
    – Lix
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:08
  • yes but this is no difference
    – LostPhysx
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:08
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    @pae nope... Its the same on all internal pages too... If you have any evidence that this is not the case, please post it with some examples...
    – Lix
    Oct 17, 2012 at 13:09

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