Sometimes I don't know which Stack&nbsp;Exchange website is suitable for my question. For example, in the past, I had a question about anonymousness of VPN. I asked this question on Network Engineering. But guys told me that is an off-topic question. Finally I found it is suitable for Information Security and got a good answer there.  So I'm wondering if Stack&nbsp;Exchange could add a function to provide suggestion about suitable website based on some information. I guess the easiest one is tag. If I add "networking" and "anonymous" tags, it could suggest me to ask this question on Information Security.
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Take for example  both at SO and SU. Now that there's , (new) users asking a LaTeX question should at least be informed that there is a new Stack Exchange site dedicated to TeX and thus increases their chance of an answer. This should happen before the question is actually posted and ideally offer the option to post the question directly there instead (without the need to copy-paste).  LaTeX is just an example, there's also , ,  etc., and it is obvious that this can only be decided on a case-by-case basis which is why I certainly do not suggest migrating questions automatically when these tags are used. But informing users of that possibility would probably help the SE network in general.
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So at my university (Aberystwyth) we all seem to have Q&amp;A groups on Facebook for all the various courses and disciplines. Alongside societies, websites and all the rest.  I think it would be fantastic if universities could own their own set of Stack Exchange sites, setting up a separate exchange for each discipline. If this is done correctly it provides an education in Stack Exchange etiquette and removes (hopefully!) the vast majority of homework questions that seem to flood at the very least, Stack Overflow.  The best part about this is that it gives courses a great way to communicate their help on what I find the best platform ever for any kind of help. Of course it would require the universities (or at least institutes) to get behind this, as well as the lecturers and hopefully the alumni too.  What do you guys think of the idea? An overall yae or nae on the core of it?  I'm not flat out suggesting this is something that should be done, I'm wondering if it's: a) Something that should be done b) Something that would work well for both the universities &amp; the Stack Exchange communities  What are your opinions?
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I've been a Stack Exchange contributor for a couple of years now, currently most active on . One thing that keeps coming up is questions that would appeal to audiences on two different Stack Exchange sites but there are almost no features taking advantage of these questions. On travel.SE we have crossover questions most often with  and possibly next most often with  - but it can happen with almost any SE site. Today alone we had  with  and  had . I am absolutely sure that this must happen all the time between arbitrary pairs of Stack Exchange sites but the only feature that takes advantage of it is the possibility of migrating off-topic questions which leaves the original question acting as a redirect across the two sites. I think there is a missed opportunity to build the network between sites where users of one site don't realize they could make valuable contributions to a sister site they have had so far little to do with. At the very least there could be a way to &quot;advertise&quot; a question on a second site that could be interested in it. Probably by listing it in the sidebar where there are also links to meta questions, linked questions, related questions, new blog posts, and But there could also be some kind of features that make some sort of acceptable crossposting. There could be gamification/badges added around building cross-site questions or whatever else you can think up. I think this is a great way for people to spread their expertise from their main site onto other sites, to make the network stronger and more cohesive, to bring more attention to questions that would have a divided audience between two sites. I can think only of positives and no negatives. Does anyone else have some ideas to add or think this is a bad idea for any reason?  Example crossover questions: Here are some links to some crossover questions I've been finding in the Stack Exchange network here. (This was previously posted as an answer, but more people wanted it to be part of the question.)   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :   ▶  :
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I am new to Stack Exchange. I know there is a lot of discussion sites for Stack Exchange. I would like to know about there were any Stack Exchange site available for discussing and solving personal psychological problems.
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I would like to ask a question about Java that doesn't have a specific answer. It's a question to see what people think and to share their opinion.    Will Stack Overflow tolerate this, or is there another Stack Exchange resource where I may ask a question like this?
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Historically this site, , has been the place to ask questions about not just Stack Overflow, but the functioning of the entire Stack Exchange (2.0) network, including Area 51 and stackexchange.com and careers.  (Yes, there was a , but that dealt with the old legacy Stack Exchange 1.0 sites. It was deprecated a while ago, and currently redirects here.)  Now that we've gotten many, many months under our belt from the SE 1.0 days, I think it's time that we gave Stack Overflow its own, true per-site meta, and moved the higher level network meta discussions to meta.stackexchange.com.  Over time, it's begun to bug me more and more that requests for Stack Overflow, the site, kind of get buried here on meta.stackoverflow under the avalanche of network issues. Retag requests, synonym requests, things truly specific to Stack Overflow, the site, not the network. This is unfair to our vastly largest and flagship Q&amp;A site, and it's unfair to the Stack Overflow users to mix their requests in with network level concerns.  It's also odd that Stack Overflow is the only network site without a proper, dedicated per-site meta, where its meta has its own reputation system not tied to the parent site in any way.  This is mostly a quirk of history more than anything else, and I believe it is now an appropriate time to split into two sites:   , a proper per-site meta for Stack Overflow with integrated rep , a global network meta with its own reputation system   Yes, this will be painful. But I believe it is a good, necessary, and healthy step both for the future of the network and the future of Stack Overflow.  Some things to discuss:   which questions should be migrated from here to meta.so? Obviously site-specific things like the retag-requests, and perhaps questions with the  tag. Anything that is 100% wholly specific to Stack Overflow and not generalizable to the rest of the network should be moved over. This may be a pretty small, narrow list of questions, and that's OK. Should we do some meta spring cleaning in our transition? Which questions / tags should be blown away as no longer relevant, referring to ancient versions of Stack Overflow or issues that have long since ceased to exist and aren't instructive for any future visitors? Your meta reps will generally be unaffected, except insofar as we delete for spring cleaning, or move site-specific things to meta.so. We still plan to have a distinct reputation system for the new meta.se site, just like here.   I do not have a timeline for this change, that is up to Jarrod and David to decide. It may be months away. However, we feel pretty strongly that this is something that we need to do to clean things up and pave the way for the future -- so I expect it will happen in the next few months, giving us lots of time to decide how we want to do it, per the above.  Update  .
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Sometimes don't understand this question better suits to which SE site. So I may have account on that site but not able to understand that question should be asked there. Or may get similar question on that site. But I wouldn't like to see faq of every site to check . We can see different types of areas here . There might be question which can fit into 2 or more sites.  Is there any central location for what kind of questions can I ask on every SE site? Or is there any collection of site with it's one faq saying .  Update: I am saying is there any central location also for reading what kind of question I can ask on this site like  And I am not saying to remove What kind of questions can I ask here? faq from all sites. I do read faq of every site. But it would be good if I know what kind of question I can ask on each site when do anyone join SE community. It would be helpful for searching my similar problems on that sites also.
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I wanted a list of sub-domains of Stack Exchange that are not mentioned over here   Some of the sub-domains I found which were not mentioned are       Are there any other which are not mentioned?    Mentions by , ,             Other mentions below which are not mentioned in "All Sites" but are mentioned in the drop down menu on the top left of the Stack Exchange website         Any other website that's left out ?
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A question about Linux could belong on these sites on the StackExchange network:   unix.stackexchange.com superuser.com, if it is about using software rather than programming AskUbuntu.com, if it is about Ubuntu serverfault.com, if it is about professional infrastructure maintenance stackoverflow.com, if it is about   a tool mainly used for programming OR shell scripting    So technically, a question about simple shell scripting to create a firewall on Ubuntu could belong on any of those 5 sites.  This is likely to lead to many questions being asked on multiple sites, and scattering of questions amongst these sites, making it harder to find questions that already exist when searching one of those sites.  What can/should we do about this?  In particular, should we comment on questions that seem to be unlikely to be answered, to suggest that they should be deleted by the asker and reposted on what we think is "the most appropriate site"? Should we flag them for migration? Should we allow questions to appear on multiple sites (a perennial proposal)?
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I think most people who come to Stack Exchange to answer others' questions - they look for the new question according to their favorite tags.  Since such behavior is a default on the Stack Exchange website - the feed of the newest questions in relevant tags would be best for most users.
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Sometimes a question can be on-topic for one site, but more likely to get answers from a different community, for example:   In this case the question is on-topic for Ask Different and perhaps off-topic for Electrical Engineering. However it's likely to have more understanding and knowledge and get better answers in Electrical Engineering since it's about the Arduino. Many variants of this example case also exist where the question is on-topic on both sites or somehow sits in the middle, etc.  Something very similar to my suggestion below has been asked before:  however I have incorporated the feedback to that suggestion into my suggestion so that it avoids the problems detailed there and hopefully makes it work better for the asker, answerers, and the communities and moderators of both sites.  The suggestion:  When positing such a question you would post it on the site where it's more on-topic (Primary site) and select an option to create a proxy on another site (Secondary site), you would choose the other site and at the same time pick the tags from the other site.   Posting this question would NOT create the question on the secondary site as well, it would create a proxy-object for the question and tag it with the correct tags. The primary site would post the question immediately as normal, but on the secondary site the proxy-question would need to be be moderated and approved before the proxy object becomes widely visible. When browsing the secondary site, users would only see proxy-questions for questions held on sites on which they already have an account (There could be a user setting to show proxies from all sites if desired). When clicking on a proxy-question you would be taken to the primary site in a new tab (the question is only in one place). Answers would only be posted on the primary site. Proxy questions could be visually distinguished from normal questions by various means: using different colours/style, an icon or obvious 'proxy' tag, putting them in a separate section, etc.   This idea of using proxy-questions may also help to solve a few other cross-site issues. For example when closing off-topic questions, moderators may also be able to convert the question into a proxy-object of a duplicate question on another site (I've seen suggestions around this too).
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What's the best blog post/video/tweet/whatever to explain how the Stack Exchange system works to regular people? I am trying to gauge interest for a new Stack Exchange site, but I want to explain it to people as best (and preferably) as visually as I can. Any YouTube clips breaking it down?  anyone?  Note: I am fully aware of , but mine is about Stack Exchange, not Stack Overflow.  Most people think I'm describing traditional forum software, which they know sucks. Is there some way to describe the magic of how the design of the Stack Exchange system actually produces useful results very quickly? I can describe generally that it is a Q&amp;A site that users vote on the answers, but Stack Overflow feels like so much more. Am I perhaps thinking too big about this?
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inbookmarks:mine was fixed for searching within a particular Stack Exchange site, but often I find myself wanting to search for a question I favorited/bookmarked, but not remembering which site it was on when it could conceivably have been on a number of different sites. On the cross-site search at  it does not work, presumably because we have different user ids on each site. Is there a way it could be made to work? Note that this request is for searching, not just viewing, so it's not a duplicate of . Just viewing is not very helpful when you have a huge volume of bookmarks across Stack Exchange sites.
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I am working on a data science project for which I need data (questions and corresponding tags) of a specific Stack Exchange site,  for example. From this  we know that SE data is publicly available, but I am not able to find a method to get data of a specific SE site. The things I've checked:  I've checked the table structure of questions  in the posts_questions table. I've checked the dataset  after downloading.  Did I miss anything? The only thing which I can think of is writing a query and use it in . Is it correct? If yes, then how, as we don't have questions and site relations in any of the tables.
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Sometimes I want to learn about a new programming related issue—topics such as DB ORM, search indexer, identity providers, logging, etc.  When I don't know anything about a subject, I ask for benchmarks or comparisons. I got some serious answers like links to tests, pros/cons, and Gartner's reviews. I found these very constructive and helpful. But then the question was blocked or deleted. Sometimes this happens even before I get an answer.  So where would it be more appropriate to ask questions about third party products and/or open source frameworks with which I am completely unfamiliar?
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I am thinking of making a site which will have a forum. I already have a lot of users (in an old forum, which I want to renew).  I like the Stack Exchange concept (voting, reputation, etc).  Can I build one of my own on my site? (I don't intend to copy any source code, just the concept itself.)  Is the concept patented or otherwise legally protected, or is it free to use?
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I was just thinking that maybe if we have more Stack&nbsp;Exchange websites then each person would be a member of more different sites on average. Since the time a person can spend online on average is limited it means he will be spending less time on each website. But would this affect the quality of these websites? I'm not talking only about the quality answers given but also the number of answers given, the promptness. Won't these things go down?  I think that the rate of questions won't go down much because you need to know what you need to know. However, the average time a person spends browsing through these websites (and chances upon a question he can answer) would decrease. So are we creating too many different Stack&nbsp;Exchange sites?