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Until June 2012, Stack Overflow users could vote to migrate questions here. When that Meta post was written, we had a 26% rejection rate for migration. The history of migration from Stack Overflow to Programmers was so bad that, in December 2010, we had to ask Stack Overflow users to stop using Programmers as their toilet bowl. Even with us seeing the influx of garbage sent from Stack Overflow, it still took a year and a half to stop individual users from migrating questions.

Also in October 2012, migrations for questions older than 60 days were disabled.

As long as we continue to uphold the rule of "don't migrate crap", we will probably be an exporter of questions. Our new name gives people a good impression of what we are about, but they may not be aware of niche communities that would be better for very specific questions. They may also not be aware of nuances between some communities, such as Software Engineering and Computer Science and the differences in answers.

Until June 2012, Stack Overflow users could vote to migrate questions here. When that Meta post was written, we had a 26% rejection rate for migration. The history of migration from Stack Overflow to Programmers was so bad that, in December 2010, we had to ask Stack Overflow users to stop using Programmers as their toilet bowl. Even with us seeing the influx of garbage sent from Stack Overflow, it still took a year and a half to stop individual users from migrating questions.

Also in October 2012, migrations for questions older than 60 days were disabled.

As long as we continue to uphold the rule of "don't migrate crap", we will probably be an exporter of questions. Our new name gives people a good impression of what we are about, but they may not be aware of niche communities that would be better for very specific questions. They may also not be aware of nuances between some communities, such as Software Engineering and Computer Science and the differences in answers.

One big problem with all of this turmoil was that, until a few days ago, we continued to have the same name and branding. To anyone outside of active participants on our community, they may not have been aware of the drastic change in expected question quality or scope. This is why Duga exists - to help us find people (primarily on Stack Overflow) who are blindly suggesting our site without understanding our scope. The things that should have made our scope change blindingly obvious to anyone - new subdomain, new logo - were flat-out rejected in June 2012.

There are two good examples for migrations. First, we did a little experiment where the same question was asked on multiple sites. The answers were dramatically different. Here, they were very practical, focused on the quality attributes of the software (testability, readability, performance), and written in more plain English. On CS, they were more mathematical and focused on the theoretical behavior of the algorithm. Another example is Open Source and Law - the people there have learned more about and worked with copyright and licensing and the quality in answer is so much higher - just look at the answers here vs there in software license questions.

One big problem with all of this turmoil was that, until a few days ago, we continued to have the same name and branding. To anyone outside of active participants on our community, they may not have been aware of the drastic change in expected question quality or scope. This is why Duga exists - to help us find people (primarily on Stack Overflow) who are blindly suggesting our site without understanding our scope. The things that should have made our scope change blindingly obvious to anyone - new subdomain, new logo - were flat-out rejected in June 2012.

There are two good examples for migrations. First, we did a little experiment where the same question was asked on multiple sites. The answers were dramatically different. Here, they were very practical, focused on the quality attributes of the software (testability, readability, performance), and written in more plain English. On CS, they were more mathematical and focused on the theoretical behavior of the algorithm. Another example is Open Source and Law - the people there have learned more about and worked with copyright and licensing and the quality in answer is so much higher - just look at the answers here vs there in software license questions.

There are two good examples for migrations. First, we did a little experiment with Computer Science where the same question was asked on both sites (I can't find a link at the moment, but we had checked with the folks at CS to make sure it was OK). The answers were dramatically different. Here, they were very practical, focused on the quality attributes of the software (testability, readability, performance), and written in more plain English. On CS, they were more mathematical and focused on the theoretical behavior of the algorithm. Another example is Open Source and Law - the people there have learned more about and worked with copyright and licensing and the quality in answer is so much higher - just look at the answers here vs there in software license questions.

There are two good examples for migrations. First, we did a little experiment where the same question was asked on multiple sites. The answers were dramatically different. Here, they were very practical, focused on the quality attributes of the software (testability, readability, performance), and written in more plain English. On CS, they were more mathematical and focused on the theoretical behavior of the algorithm. Another example is Open Source and Law - the people there have learned more about and worked with copyright and licensing and the quality in answer is so much higher - just look at the answers here vs there in software license questions.