Developers really review CSDN question and answer function, and there are many improvements~

Preface

Although I am still studying in College , But there are also twoorthree years of development experience , From the initial CSDN Until now, Nuggets ,stackoverflow,github Have had in-depth experience . I happen to see CSDN The evaluation of question and answer function is being held , Satisfied with my participation status, I am naturally glad to participate ~

CSDN This question and answer function may have been launched for some time , But I have never used , Maybe the usage scenario hasn't covered me yet, hahaha . So I also experienced it seriously , Here is my answer to CSDN Some comments and opinions on the question and answer function .

Functional experience

Q & a page

First, let's look at the entry of the question and answer function , stay CSDN The top left corner of the homepage , It belongs to a single large module , It's easier to find , But the orange bar of the currently active navigation is placed Top It feels very strange , It may be pleasing to the eye at the bottom .

Click to enter the question and answer module , The page is mainly composed of three parts on the left, middle and right , Here's the picture ：

The left side is classified by problem category or publisher , Personally, I think there are too many points , And it's similar Have a craigslist and Waiting for you to arrive There is no need to put this here , Too many labels lose the function of rapid classification .

At the top of the middle is a tab bar classified according to the release of the problem , Here is a list of questions , Each list item is the number of answers from left to right , Problem description , Question tag , Browse volume , Release time , Publisher , Adoption rate and other contents . If there is a reward, the label is golden background .

The list of problems is relatively clear , Regular presentation , But I don't think it's necessary to put the number of answers at the top .

On the right is the data related to personal information , And the button to post the question . This piece is quite clear , I don't want to merge my personal information with my blog in the past Q & a module As a relatively independent function .

The problem module page on the mobile terminal is relatively refreshing （ After all, there is only one column ）, In fact, these functions on the mobile phone are enough , The content of each list item is much simplified , Put the number of answers in the lower right corner , And omit the unimportant things of publishing user information , The content of the problem presented is clearer .

Question page

On the left side of the question page is a md The document editor is used to enter questions , Two problem templates are provided by default , The right side is used to enrich the problem information . The overall page is neat , But on the right First free experience as well as Question and answer VIP Have greatly reduced my popularity .

I think having such a function will affect users' willingness to ask questions , If I didn't choose these options or I didn't set up a reward, isn't there no one to answer my question ？ If I open this member , Someone specially assigned to answer for me , It's not a Q & a community , It's a pure paid service , This is unfavorable to the overall ecological construction .

Question details page

In the middle is the details of the problem , All contents related to the problem are shown in detail . Here's the picture ：

There are some interactive function buttons at the bottom of the question to interact with the current question .

The following question is Answer list , The upper left corner is Total number of answers , In the upper right corner is a Switch button of list display order , Each answer item is displayed in a similar way to the question , Overall, it seems to have a strong sense of unity , Neat and clear , The font size is also quite appropriate ~ Here's the picture ：

At the bottom of the answer list is the answer md Editor , Similar to the reply in traditional articles , Click the write answer button at the top to jump directly to this position to answer . Here's the picture ：

When searching for past problems, it is found that problems can be solved , It's a good point , similar github The top is closed issue The logic of .

The problem details page on the mobile terminal is similar to pc The end is close to , The overall impression is good , The presentation is very clear . The page is as follows ：

But the position of answering questions is not very good , take md The document editor is displayed on the keyboard , A window that appears to answer Too cramped , I think answering questions jumps to a full screen md The document editor is more suitable .

Such a presentation will always make people worry about the loss of content due to carelessly clicking on the background mask when inputting content . And editing in a separate page will also prompt respondents More focused To answer questions , The respondent does not need to be very convenient Exit the editor . And the computer terminal has full screen editing, but the mobile terminal does not , It still needs to be upgraded .

Overall feeling

The overall function is not very different from other platforms , The page style is regular , The experience is pretty good , It is not different from the expected Q & a community

When evaluating functions , You can still see a lot Garbage problem , This title has no meaning , I see a lot of problems that don't even have descriptions , Whether the audit system needs to be improved ？



I think we want to build an excellent Q & a community , What the platform should do should actively guide users to ask questions and answer , Take the initiative to provide some small gifts for high-quality answers , Often launch some theme activities to stimulate user interaction .

I don't think the mechanism of offering a reward is suitable for the technical Q & a community that advocates open source sharing , Under many problems with high rewards , There are still a lot of No nutritional answer , The overall Q & A atmosphere is not good , At the beginning, I think we should quickly accumulate some high-quality Q & a content to attract more users .

You can see many links in many places on the page money Follow Offer a reward Related content , It always makes me feel that this is not a technology community , But a part-time platform for programmers , Maybe this is the official direction , But how can people with real problems believe that there are people willing to help him without spending money in this community ？

Improvements

1. First of all, we need to reduce some push content , Keep only the most critical issues Category labels .
2. Reduce promotion modules , At least push after the user quality of the question and answer module is guaranteed .
3. Strengthen the audit , Avoid pushing garbage Q & a content , Improve the overall problem quality .
4. The current ranking is meaningless , The ranking of respondents should take the respondents with high-quality answers as the evaluation index , The problem ranking list should be based on the problems that are deep and can help other users understand at a glance .

summary

Synthesize the above views , I don't think I'm likely to recommend friends to post questions here , My conclusion is this b) Not recommended . As a developer , After browsing for a day or two, I found that the content still didn't satisfy me , I think the overall functional design is pretty good , But most of the problems are still facing Xiaobai , It's not very useful for experienced developers , The official should also know this .

The overall score is as follows ：

describe	（ Full marks 10 branch , good 6 branch , pass 4 branch , something is better than nothing 1 branch , Is very poor -3 branch ）	score
Core functions	Analyze three core functions , Functional design and quality .	7
details	What are the details for users to consider ?	6
User experience	When the user completes the function , No interference with users ( for example : Do you keep popping up irrelevant advertisements ).	5
Auxiliary function	Some auxiliary functions, such as skin, etc	4
Differentiation function	The unique function of this software . How attractive it is to users ?	4
The effectiveness of software	Take up memory , Starting speed , Memory leak	8
The adaptability of software	On the Internet / Broken net , Big and small screens , You can operate smoothly without a mouse . Smooth collaboration with software on different platforms	8
Growth	Remember the user's choice , Adapt to the characteristics of users , The more users use it, the more convenient it is	8
The user has control	The system status has feedback , Wait for the right time . The key operation has confirmation prompt , There is a clear error message . Make it easy for users to recover from errors , The shortcut key can be adjusted	7

I don't think the above table can give any feedback , There is nothing useful .

I think the domestic technology Q & a community is still blank , similar stackoverflow This kind of platform is very needed in China , But this kind of platform often has low requirements for functions , Is a simple question and answer . But the requirements for content are very high , There is no excellent question and answer content , There are no dedicated developers involved , This will be a vicious circle . Users should be encouraged Take the initiative to answer questions , High quality answers , And regularly launch some Q & a theme activities , Only in this way can excellent developers ask questions here , The community environment will get better step by step ~