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GATE Overflow was updated to Q2A 1.7.4 from Q2A 1.7.0. I hope many of the bugs would be gone now. This was a major upgrade as it also coincided with the server upgrade. Also, all the core hacks in Q2A was removed making GATE Overflow more independent and all future upgrades will be done immediately.

One issue of upgrade is bugs - so please notify of any bugs. 

Also, please inform if anything improved. Some things changed at user end are:

  1. Latex rendering on answer, comment submit without having to reload page.
  2. New version of editor  - faster loading and fewer bugs

If things are stable a minor upgrade should happen within a month. Minor on the server side- but that will be more attractive for users :)

Also, there are plenty of development opportunities for Q2A which is an open source QA platform. I encourage those interested in web development to try. It is plain PHP and has a good framework. I have been making some plugins for it and some new plugins which have to be made are follows:

  1. Automatic backup of site and database to GoogleDrive/Drop Box
  2. Automatic posting of questions to FB page
  3. Top Monthly Users per Category
  4. Reply to Email and the reply getting posted as comment/answer

If interested I can help. Also, a good theme - can be forked from open source ones like Donut and a mobile app - also has a basic open souce code are required.

Though Q2A is open source, plugins can be free/paid. Also a good plugin can boost one's resume and get parttime work from site owners.

Also, GATE Overflow Home page is going to be changed soon. Except that if anything requires change please post below. These will be the last update for the site for at least a year. Some more coming things:

  1. Some videos for critical topics which are not there in http://videos.gatecse.in
  2. Automatic advancement of users to editor post based on points earned

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@arjun Sir  Gate overflow has become much better .
few suggetions / modifications from my side :

  • need detailed descritive or video solutions to some really difficult GATE questions  ( provision to add video solutions to each answers )
  • each tag is having only questions. provision to add short notes or videos to tags would be sooper cool
  • questions notification on/ off . Altough we comment some questions users may feel no importance of notifications
  • Notification history search would be nice as most of the doubts could be recollected in last minute
  • There are too much scrolling . It would be great if you could make everyting in single view

Will add thigs if I remeber anything in later point of time

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Arjun Sir, I have a few suggestions

  • Sometimes the best answer given to a question lies in the comments, and the best answer choosen by someone else is not even the best one. The admin should look to it.
  • Although it looks trivial, but whenever we upvote a comment the points should increase.
  • Whenever we tag a person (in comments/answer) the person may or may not know, so it would be cool if we have a notification button just like FB or Linkedin.
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Happy for Updated GateOverflow.

Really its speedy now.

Sugession:-

1.The User Icons are not clearly Visible .

2.Like Stackoverflow there may be a choice like ACCEPTED which means it Fulfill the Askers need though it may not be the Best Ans.

3.  programs loaded in my screen are Center aligned so its hard to read due to alignment issue.

I 'll add more as i come accross any more problem.

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