Sigh, over 140 people signed up to Digital Fabrication Stack Exchange Private Beta but only 34 questions in the first week, so it’s looking like we are never even going to go public.
If you have questions to ask, and want access to the private beta, let me know the e-mail address you use for stack exchange and I’ll send you an invite.
What exactly is supposed to be the draw of this over the mediums we already have? It doesn’t seem to be particularly friendly to 3D printing, as you cannot post files, there’s no on-site model viewer. In order for people to want to jump over to it, it’s gotta have something special.
Stack exchange sites are focussed entirely on getting questions answered rather than on discussion or sharing. Existing sites do the latter two very well, but stack exchange does Q&A better than anything else on the net.
If you’ve ever searched for a programming question on the net, it is very likely you found the best answer on StackOverflow, and we want Digital Fabrication to be the same for 3d printing, scanning and machining questions. The idea of Digital Fabrication is not to taking anything away from existing sites but to supplement them.