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What is the target difference between this site and AskUbuntu.com?

Asked by Dan Dascalescu

Aside from the technical differences (i.e. voting abilities and all that), what is the conceptual difference, pertaining to the scope and target audience, between answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu and Askbuntu.com?

Why would the community be split among the two sites?

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Dan Dascalescu (ddascalescu+launchpad) said : 		#1

Looks like I can't mark a question as duplicate here, so I'll just paste URLs:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/132734 (uninformative)

http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/675/when-should-we-use-launchpad-answers-and-when-ask-ubuntu (useful):

> There are some fundamental differences in the format of each site though.

> Ask Ubuntu has a "voting design" with people competing to provide better answers, which can be voted up. There is a hope
> these can be useful and interesting to a wide number of people (or for more specialised questions easily findable through
> Google). Ask Ubuntu allows for a range of formatting (links, images, headings, bullet points, etc) not found on Launchpad
> Answers.
> Launchpad Answers is in a "forum style", essentially in the form of a discussion. This is particularly useful for troubleshooting
> problems because it allows for easier back and forth conversation. It is possible to ask a question about a particular package,
> and other people who are interested in that package will be notified by email.
> As a very broad generalisation, I find questions on Launchpad Answers are hardware questions, whereas questions about
> software and the Ubuntu ecosphere tend to flourish on Ask Ubuntu.

And it's okay to post the same question on both.

http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/4041/what-is-the-difference-between-ask-ubuntu-and-ubuntu-questions-on-launchpad (useful) - more details on the differences