Please start here: Codidact MVP Roadmap - #4 for the current progress. It’s simply not possible to launch right now. It’s also possible to view ongoing editing at the Github page https://github.com/codidact
On one hand, I see some major problems with “just do it”:
- We don’t even know which sites to begin with. (We have https://writing.codidact.com to begin with.)
- First impressions last, and it won’t be great to have a bunch of experts come here and declare the site as “unprofessional”.
- There are major design decisions in the works, and rushing them could cause long-term issues with the community in disagreement about changes.
- We’re going to need to do bug testing and so on—there could be some gigantic bugs early on (data loss, personal information leaks).
- Early content sets the “tone” of the site indefinitely: it’s critical to get it right.
On the other hand…
- Novel content and active communities are what attracts people, not the software. These take time to build, so it’d be nice to start early.
- It would be nice to see the site progressing.
- There’s a bit of an anti-SE spirit currently. [However, I doubt “anti-SE spirit” is convertible into “pro-Codidact spirit”—we need to be more than “not SE”.]
So I expect a “closed alpha” is in order (a joint push for content creation and debugging). But I wouldn’t expect my favourite site unless there are several people willing to invest their time in creating it.
I have the complete opposite opinion here: I feel we have to choose between (a) experts or (a) “do my homework” questions. I strongly prefer experts.
I (and many others) became inactive on math.SE because of lazy “do my homework” questions: it negatively affected my real-world reputation. I’d do the same here too.
This feature request needs some fleshing out.
I don’t know what this means (I guess “consciousness” is the wrong word), but it sounds largely inaccurate.