QUESTION
What is the purpose of FAQoverflow?
ANSWER
FAQoverflow is the coffee table book version of the StackOverflow (SO) family of Q&A sites.
There are a growing number of community-driven Q&A sites in the SO family. They're great resources if you're looking for the answer to a particular question, or if you have specialist knowledge that you'd like to share by answering questions asked by other users.
If you just want to browse great questions and answers on a variety of topics, however, you're out of luck. You could visit each SO site separately, view the questions sorted by votes, and read the top few answers of each one. But that doesn't scale as the number of sites in the SO family grows, and you'll find questions and answers surrounded by lots of navigation and discussion that gets in the way.
FAQoverflow is the solution. We select the best questions and answers from each site in the SO family and reformat them as a traditional FAQ. It's the perfect solution for people who just want to discover more about a topic without knowing what they're looking for!
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