Any chance of long form articles getting the SO/SE treatment?

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As the SO system becomes easier and better to use, I think SO'izing other things could have real benefits, especially since SO/SE is now going to become the owner of many communities, and they won't necessarily be affiliated with additional sites providing these features.

In particular, I take part in other communities where an article is not a Wiki and it has a single owner (this is good for things like real articles, demos and worked examples), the discussion below it is hard to follow (if it is a blog-post-style article), never threaded and doesn't allow comments on comments - and they never have voting.

In other cases, the article may have a thread attached to it in a traditional (barf) discussion forum, and it's linked, but you can't tell how active it is, and there isn't voting.

Any chance, we get an SO treatment of this? (i.e. kind of like an SO'ized blog? or editor-managed site?)

I'm thinking in particular of SQLServerCentral (which has an SE site, but it's not integrated - so they have forums and articles on their regular site, too - but it's painful to use that traditional stuff).

I'm not saying this needs to be a direct peer of the Q&A on the same host, but some of the SO/SE communities may benefit from articles on another host - like ask.actionfigures.com for Q&A and articles.actionfigures.com for user-submitted pricing analysis of Christmas Yodas over the years and blog.actionfigures.com being the "official" blog.

Answer 1

There are some very fundamental differences between how SO is designed and used and how people interact with blogs and article type content. There are a lot of good ideas in SO that are well implemented and could become part of a reasonable blog CMS, but I doubt very much that Stackoverflow LLC will pursue this area.

There are a variety of stackoverflow clones, many of which are open source, that may be suited to your needs with some modification. Some of the authors may even be interested in branching out and differentiating their product from StackOverflow's product.

Your ideas has a great deal of merit, as others have already implemented blog post and blog comment rating systems for the major blog CMS packages. You might look there as well, since there are a lot of features that blogs support that no current SO clone supports (such as image uploading, wysiwig editing, trackbacks and pings, etc).