[mirod1]

tags should help, but after browsing the site, I am not sure they do.

Stackoverflow works well because it is really easy to scan only questions about the topics I am interested about. The tags are quite precise and there is general consensus on what they should be. I look at the "perl" tag, often, or at the "XML" one... voilà!

With a "soft" subject, like expats, it's harder to filter interesting questions. It doesn't naturally lead to accepted categories, and most of the info I would be interested in wouldn't fit in a single one.

So either the site stays low-volume, and I can scan all questions, and rarely find one that I am interested in. Or it becomes successful and chances are that I will miss the threads I would have liked to read.

Bother...

[tinkertim]

The site _just_ came out of private beta, so tags are a bit of a mess. We're cleaning them up now, and working on conventions for location / country tags, which do make narrowing questions much simpler.