My prior is that writing your own code for a Q&A would be a bad idea—since many people already built Q&A solutions and you could probably use theirs. What do you think?
I agree with you. We actually checked various solutions to see what best to use and we eventually opted to go with building ontop of Wordpress. Wordpress does have a couple of white label q and A plugins/extensions but none of the ones we found had the features we needed (which are specific and a bit extensive) so we decided it would be better to code our own custom plugins (on top of wordpress) for the features we want instead of trying to customize someone else’s code to fit our needs. However if you know of any whitelabel Q and A solutions you could recommend we would be happy to take a look at it, hopefully we might find one we could work with to save on time and costs.
All projects that write their own code have the opinion that they want some extra specific features, and almost all of them are wrong for doing so.
Things that influence my opinion:
I have priors about existing Q&A websites being good
I didn’t hear specific examples of what features you lack
I didn’t hear about user testing that could even in theory uncover such features. It seems to me like the features you’re thinking about came from the founding team? That would, on priors, not be a good source of features, to me
Of course you’re the project lead, so your call, just saying how this influenced me
My prior is that writing your own code for a Q&A would be a bad idea—since many people already built Q&A solutions and you could probably use theirs. What do you think?
I agree with you. We actually checked various solutions to see what best to use and we eventually opted to go with building ontop of Wordpress. Wordpress does have a couple of white label q and A plugins/extensions but none of the ones we found had the features we needed (which are specific and a bit extensive) so we decided it would be better to code our own custom plugins (on top of wordpress) for the features we want instead of trying to customize someone else’s code to fit our needs. However if you know of any whitelabel Q and A solutions you could recommend we would be happy to take a look at it, hopefully we might find one we could work with to save on time and costs.
Just saying you didn’t change my mind here.
All projects that write their own code have the opinion that they want some extra specific features, and almost all of them are wrong for doing so.
Things that influence my opinion:
I have priors about existing Q&A websites being good
I didn’t hear specific examples of what features you lack
I didn’t hear about user testing that could even in theory uncover such features. It seems to me like the features you’re thinking about came from the founding team? That would, on priors, not be a good source of features, to me
Of course you’re the project lead, so your call, just saying how this influenced me