[OSM-talk] our Q&A site help.openstreetmap.org is dying

[Tobias Wrede]

Am 20.05.2020 um 21:32 schrieb Frederik Ramm:
>
> We've taken great care to write our replies in a generic fashion where
> possible, with the aim of collecting knowledge that others can profit
> from (instead of asking the same question over and over again).
>
> Not copying past answers, at least the last two years or so, would mean
> we'd have to write all these answers again because the questions will
> inevitably be asked.
>
> I think it would be rather disrespectful to those who have invested a
> lot of time into building a good body of knowledge in the old system to
> say "let's throw away this content, main thing is we get a shiny new
> system". And the alternative of having to keep the old system around in
> a read-only fashion is not super attractive either.

Hi Frederik,

I'm myself among the more frequent contributors on the site. I'm not 
saying to throw everything away and would appreciate if one could still 
refer to the the old answers. But considering how long this issue has 
been hanging in the air without resolution I would favor a practical way 
over one that will let us wait another few years before something 
happens. In my view it should be possible to leave the old site in a 
read only state and start a new site from zero. We could still link to 
answers on the archived site. Of course I'd welcomed if there was a 
reasonably fast way of moving and migrating all the old Q&As.

Tobias