Be quick and just do it

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”:

  1. We don’t even know which sites to begin with. (We have https://writing.codidact.com to begin with.)
  2. First impressions last, and it won’t be great to have a bunch of experts come here and declare the site as “unprofessional”.
  3. There are major design decisions in the works, and rushing them could cause long-term issues with the community in disagreement about changes.
  4. 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).
  5. Early content sets the “tone” of the site indefinitely: it’s critical to get it right.

On the other hand…

  1. 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.
  2. It would be nice to see the site progressing.
  3. 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.

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