Timeline for Feature request: add short "about MathOverflow" section to the front page
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 5:37 | answer | added | Martin Sleziak | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 23, 2022 at 21:26 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 9:07 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I have posted this suggestion: Might featuring some FAQ posts on meta be useful? I don't expect a lot of response there - but maybe it might direct a bit more attention to your post. I have mentioned some sites which have customized information in the banner in the sidebar here: Which elements of the frontpage can be customized per site? (If you consider that useful, feel free to include examples of such sites into your feature request.) | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 16:07 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Perhaps this post from 2015 is also worth mentioning: Why is "what is the difference between mathoverflow and math.stackexchange?" not prominently displayed? (It is not exactly the same as this suggestion, but definitely related.) | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 4:07 | comment | added | Vitali Kapovitch | I will confess I don't remember what exactly it said but there was something. Regardless, my main point is that there absolutely should be such a section telling new visitors what the site is about. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 3:43 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | If you mean the content which was available under mathoverflow.net/about, that is now called Tour. (Sorry for several comments - the fact that I wanted to include the links to Wayback Machine made this text a bit longer and it did not fit one or two comments.) | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 3:39 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | ... in 2017. For unregistered users it says: "MathOverflow is a question and answer site for professional mathematicians." (I think that's the same as now.) There were some design changes in 2018, so the site looked a bit differently after that: 2019, 2020. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 3:34 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | ... and 2013 - I see a banner on the right saying: "Welcome to MathOverflow - A place for mathematicians to ask and answer questions." The same one which is shown in this answer: Why is “MathOverflow” spelled without a space when “Stack Overflow” is spelled with a space? Then in 2013 MO joined the SE network. So it looks a bit different in 2013 or ... | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 3:31 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Checking how the site looked in the past, I have trouble determining what exactly is the thing which existed in the past and doesn't exist now. Of course, it is possible that the reason is that from the Wayback Machine only shows me what the site looks like for an unregistered users. I checked some older snapshots: 2010, 2011, 2012 and ... | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 5:44 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Feb 22, 2022 at 22:04 | comment | added | Vitali Kapovitch | thank you for the comment. I didn't know about the the modal window. This does help but I still think an "About MathOverflow" section would be helpful as it would quickly let people know if they are in the right place without starting an actual submission. I also added the new-users tag as you suggested. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 22:02 | history | edited | Vitali Kapovitch |
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | I will just mention that any new user is shown a customized window with some advice before asking the first question on MO - the customization was done in June 2021: What should the modal window for first-time askers say? (Of course that's a bit different from your suggestion.) I will also add that maybe (new-users) could be a suitable tag here. (It seems that the intention of this suggestion is partly to inform new users about the site.) | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 20:17 | history | asked | Vitali Kapovitch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |