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Lead Technical Analyst at Missouri Health Connection
Question Scott Beeson · Mar 17, 2016

Are there plans for more post types?

I think there should at the very least be a third option; "discussion".  

Comments

Paul Gomez · Mar 17, 2016

The whole site is a discussion with threaded commenting everywhere. What is the distinct UI or behavior you're envisioning?

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Scott Beeson  Mar 17, 2016 to Paul Gomez

It's about more than function.  Question and Article are pretty specific and I feel like many things won't fall into those categories.  Here are a couple examples:

What is your favorite public cloud provider and why? (Discussion)

Development teams and namespaces (Discussion)

Getting my head around a class model (Discussion)

2015.1.4 maintenance release now available (Announcement)

Alert: Incorrect SQL Results (Announcement)

And honestly I'm generally not interested in articles, nor do I have time to read them.  It would be cool to just view all questions or all discussions.  So that's one functional reason.

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Scott Beeson  Mar 17, 2016 to Paul Gomez

Also there is already a Find > Articles/Whitepapers menu option.  What is the difference between those articles and post articles?  Just another related aspect that should be considered.

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