Slite vs. Stack Overflow for Teams

Many many similar tools like Slite. No reason to pick this one over the myriad of others.

Incentivized

In my opinion, Stack Overflow for Teams is well suited for an organization that is on a hiring spree for the engineering teams. The reason for it is because instead of catering to doubts of new joinees individually, they can be asked to refer to the Stack Overflow and hence will save a lot of time for both new joiners as well as the existing employees.

Incentivized

• I love how easy it is to organize my notes through Slite.
• I enjoy being able to insert tables and images easily without a lot of hassle.
• I also like all of the channels you have in Slite. It makes it very easy to navigate what documentation you are looking for, without having to go to like a main page or something similar to find it.
• It is easy and convenient that everything is all on one page.

Incentivized

• Sharing technical solutions to problems we encounter in our internal development environment.
• Sharing best practices we find in external resources.
• Discussions on design patterns and conventions we can use in our projects.

Incentivized

• Hard to copy/paste
• Not too much options for exporting/importing
• Formatting of code is just okay
• No easy way to create things like FAQs or knowledge bases that are automatically updated, searchable, and viewed by users of a specific team, etc.

• I would recommend an increased engineering focus on the Microsoft Teams integration.
• It would be nice to make more medals.
• Easier ways to earn points.

Incentivized

Search and AI help features are decent but not as powerful in comparison to other tools I've used in my opinion. Once there are dozens of people using it over several months, it's arduous to archive and cull docs that you wouldn't want the AI to use.

Incentivized

[In my opinion,] Slite is cheaper but less mature and feature full. Notion is a much more mature solution, so I'd recommend it for teams who want to be at the front and don't care about cost.

It's easier to use Stack Overflow for Teams Q&A to maintain our knowledge base over time, over the Confluence wikis that we also maintain. You don't need to bother about folders, filenames, templates - just ask a question and answer it or get it answered. It feels less formal, so developers feel more free to add content.

Incentivized

• It is helping manage our documentation and processes all in one place.
• It is helping with company updates and product releases.
• It is nice that everyone has access to shared boards and private boards to use.
• We also use it to track customer feedback after a big release.

Incentivized

• It makes the search for answers more efficient, so devs can focus in more important things.
• Knowledge is not lost, even if people leave the company.

Incentivized