Domain Analysis - bounswe/bounswe2016group12 GitHub Wiki

#Local

Ekşi Sözlük

[Ekşi Sözlük ] (https://www.eksisozluk.com/)is a social networking and news website which is used by most people in Turkey. This website is also known as where most of people can argue with each other with toleration. Most of people in young generation use to follow the news here instead of watching news sometimes. Because some entries may be more reliable. It is beneficial especially censor about some topics arrives. It was found by Sedat Kapanoğlu(ssg) in 1999.

Similarities

  • When a user posts a comment, including illegal contents, his account can be deleted by administrators.

  • Checks for possible duplicates for topics and recommends you to the real topic you interest.

  • Has a FAQ part to answer most of the questions about sözlük.

  • Users can tag topics and entries while commenting.

  • Sharing comments or topics in other social media platform (Facebook, Twitter etc.) is possible without being a member.

  • While searching, it is possible that sorting based on lexicographical order or time. Searching can be done either a member name or keywords.

  • Users can also see the most recent comments about the topics in gündem tab.

Differences

  • Ekşi Sözlük uses Rookie System to filter new members before they become permanent members. The condition to pass the system is posting comments in accordance with the sözlük format.

  • It has an unofficial Android application independent of website. Ekşin

  • Users' location does not appear when they post a comment or topic.

  • Sözlük does not recommend you topics that you interest.

  • Being a member is necessary to up/down votes.

#Global

###Reddit Reddit is an entertainment, social news networking service, and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links, making it essentially an online bulletin board system. It was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005.In October 2014 Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto. Their investment saw the company valued at $500 million.Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005. Reddit doesn't have an official Android application but there are several unofficial applications that use the Reddit API in the Google Play store, and F-Droid repository. As of October 2014, Alien Blue is the official iOS Reddit app.

###Quora

Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by its community of users. The firm was founded in June 2009, and the website was made available to the public on June 21, 2010.Quora aggregates questions and answers to topics. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers. Quora have both official Android and iOS applications.

###Ask.fm

Ask.fm is a global social networking site where users create profiles and can send each other questions. The site was founded in Latvia and launched on June 16, 2010. Ask.fm has official Android and iOS applications.

###Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. At Yahoo! Answers, there is a bar including frequently used titles, which eases finding questions and answers according to users' interests. In addition, searching a topic or a question is available. Yahoo! Answers keeps most rated answer at the top. Also, it displays both trending topics and trending users. Yahoo! Answers don't have any Android or iOS application.

#####Similarities

  • Trending Topics
  • Searching according to tags
  • Answer rating

#####Differences

  • It doesn't allow defining relationships among questions
  • It has no Android application
  • It does not support multiple languages

###4chan

4chan is an English-language imageboard website. Users generally post anonymously, with the most recent posts appearing above the rest. 4chan is split into various boards with their own specific content and guidelines. Registration is not required, nor is it possible (except for staff). - 4chan on Wikipedia

  • An imageboard which consists of pre-defined boards for various topics.
  • Threads are the main blocks of content found within each board.
  • Reply to threads are the secondary blocks of content.
  • Anyone can start a thread and anyone can reply to them.
  • Replies do not require an image, but starting a new thread does.
  • It is not possible to register, therefore claim the property of the posts made.
  • There is a limit to the amount of threads kept within a board.
  • With the creation of each thread, the thread with the least recent activity gets pruned.
  • There is a limit to the amount of images that can be posted per thread.
  • Sorting order of threads is customizable. Replies are sorted according to the times they were posted, which cannot be changed.

Although 4chan is a place for collaborative concept mapping and discovery, it is mostly known for its bad reputation which won't ever come off, therefore definitely needs a replacement. Our project offers functionalities similar to 4chan's and comes along with some remarkable improvements including:

  • User profiles
  • Personalized user experience
  • Better categorization of content

###HowStuffWorks HowStuffWorks is a place for learning about what you wonder about the world, basically. The authors of the website give the users reliable, easy to understand answers. The site consists of main categories like science, culture, health etc. and it also has videos, podcasts and quizzes. HowStuffWorks has a website and Android and iOS applications.

Although it is a very good application to learn, it does not allow users to colloborate so it really is not an interactive app. If users want to learn something about the world, they would have to write to the authors and wait for an article about their question. In our app, however, users may get answers instantly since the amount of visitors surely be more than the amount of authors in a given time. Users will have profiles in our app unlike this one.

###StackExchange

Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer Web sites on topics in varied fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The sites are modeled after Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for computer programming questions that was the original site in this network. The reputation system allows the sites to be self-moderating.

The primary purpose of each Stack Exchange site is to enable users to post questions and answer them. Users can vote on both answers and questions, and through this process users earn reputation points, a form of gamification. Users receive privileges by collecting reputation points, ranging from the ability to vote and comment on questions and answers to the ability to moderate many aspects of the site. Due to the prominence of Stack Exchange profiles in web search results and the Stack Overflow Careers job board, users may have reason to game the system. Along with posting questions and answers, users can add comments to them and edit text written by others.

Stack Exchange is similar to our sites in some ways:

  1. It is also about Question answers.

  2. It allows tagging.

  3. It has a voting system.

  4. It has searching.

Differences:

  1. Our site allows more media in questions and answers.(Pictures, Videos, Surveys, etc)

  2. Our site also has turkish localization.

  3. Our site is more about trending topics. Stack exchange has subsites which are spesific topics.

###Everything2

Everything2 or E2 for short, is a collaborative Web-based community consisting of a database of interlinked user-submitted written material. E2 is moderated for quality, but has no formal policy on subject matter. Writing on E2 covers a wide range of topics and genres, including encyclopedic articles, diary entries (known as "daylogs"), poetry, humor, and fiction.

Like other online communities, E2 has a social hierarchy and code of behavior, to which it is sometimes difficult for a newcomer to adjust. Moreover, some people complain that new users are held to a different standard from established contributors, and that their writeups are singled out for deletion regardless of content. Another complaint is that all too often, site administrators remove articles that they do not agree with or which they do not see explicit value in, thus biasing the content of the database. Others dismiss such complaints as unjustified; they observe that few communities treat newcomers exactly like long-time members, and they claim that those who learn and obey the rules are usually—though not always—treated fairly.

E2 users called noders create entries called nodes and add information in multiple writeups. Only logged-in users can create writeups, and only the author of a writeup or an editor appointed by the site administrators can edit a writeup. E2 categorizes writeups into thirteen types: person, place, idea, thing, dream, personal, fiction, poetry, review, log, recipe, essay, and event. Two additional writeup types, lede and definition, are usable only by editors and are applied retroactively. Writeups are written in a simplified HTML dialect and do not contain images.

There are other types of nodes that do not contain writeups; for instance, the administrators can create "superdoc" nodes (similar to Wikipedia's special pages) such as Everything New Nodes and Page of Cool that allow interaction, and each user has a "homenode" where he or she can add a short autobiography or other text.