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10 questions linked to/from How to ask for an alternative to some software
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Software to make something like <link>
We often get questions like:
I must implement such animations (preferably integrated with React): <link> Any idea which library is best to do?
I like the images at <link>, with what Linux ...
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Product names in question titles / "Alternative to ..." titles
I asked a question, where the original title was
Free alternative to Adobe VoCo
A moderator then left the following comment:
Would you mind removing the word "Adobe VoCo" from the title? Or at ...
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What is required for a question to contain "enough information"?
This is the question edition of What is required for an answer to be high quality?
One of the key problems that I see Software Recommendations having, is people asking extremely vague and simple ...
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Is it okay to ask for alternatives? [duplicate]
For the sake of making an example that's easy to understand: If I were a Java w/ Spring developer using Eclipse, would the following question be acceptable?
What's an alternative to Eclipse for ...
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Update to our `/help/on-topic` page
As we discussed on chat, our /help/on-topic page might need at least a tiny update. I recommend the following addition right after the currently "blockquoted line":
Especially, make sure your ...
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Testing the game recommendation category of questions
Related: Are video game related questions on topic?
Below are a variety of game recommendation questions that we saw on the gaming Stack Exchange, Arqade, during its life. I have split these into ...
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Is my question bad or off topic?
This is my first question in Software Recommendation. I am surprised to see so many downvotes. Is the question really that bad? Please someone explain so I can delete my question after knowing the ...
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What should our /about contain?
I've taken a first go at the customizable parts of the very first page users are supposed to read on the site — the tour page (formerly known as /about), based on the guidelines we've established so ...
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Should tags for specific software products be permitted?
I've just encountered the tag lightroom. The question using it makes pretty clear what it stands for: Alternative to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?
My point here is: Should we support tags for a specific ...
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Add descriptions of mentioned software
How far should software mentioned in questions be described? Now and then, I encounter questions where I don't know the software described ( like here ), but I think I might know an answer. Is it good ...
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