Doing a bit of canvassing here, specifically this:
Opinions would be greatly appreciated.
Doing a bit of canvassing here, specifically this:
Opinions would be greatly appreciated.
I think Stack Exchange sites really work best for coherent communities, and taking computer science and removing theory, security, graphics, and software engineering doesn't seem to me like it leaves you with a very coherent community. You should try defining a site by what it is, and not by what it is not.
I think the train has already left the barn on this one.
It seems that the proposal has gone under several changes. I don't understand the scope anymore. So I posted a question asking for clarification of its scope. If the scope contains research level questions in TCS then it overlaps with cstheory and its creation will damage cstheory and other existing CS sites. In which case it should be closed because of that.
To me with current description of the scope of the proposal it seems like an indirect attempt to force two suggestions that cstheory community has rejected previously: 1. extending the scope of cstheory to contain non-research level question 2. extending the scope of cstheory to contain other areas in CS. As long as this is not clarified I am against the proposal since its creation will damage cstheory, more heavily than the creation of crypto.SE did.
As a long-term supporter of a computer science site, I welcome your proposal and thank you for spending the time to make it and defend it. I hope it won't be wrongly closed as a duplicate of this site, like (now deleted) previous attempts.
The proposal has now entered the commitment phase. Please join if you're interested in applied or non-research-level questions in computer science!