Why fragment the userbase even more when Power Users already covers the Android end users and Software Development covers the Android developers?

Probably to mimic https://android.stackexchange.com/. But I agree that it may be better to let those two cover Android until the userbase is much larger.

Because those two communities fully encompass the topics, I don’t think such an Android community should exist at all. It’s not healthy to split up the communities like this, as it makes it harder to structure a knowledge repository.

Anyway, thanks, matthewsnyder‭, that might be where the idea comes from. However;

Note that Android development questions are generally off-topic

So if anything, the SE site is not much more than an extension from Super User. Strange, honestly, if you ask me.

To be fair, SE also has AskDifferent for Apple users, AskUbuntu for Linux/Ubuntu users, Unix & Linux for, well, every Linux user other than Ubuntu ones, and Unix ones… Yeah, I don’t want to replicate such a mess here.

Where is that quote from? Android@SE? That seems like a strange rule. If you're going to have a site for Android specifically, the reality is that Android devs are going to provide a lot of the deeper answers because they have to learn the inner workings of the OS to do their dev. So by having a place where users and devs are mixing freely, you can get questions answered more effectively.

I guess that would be the one benefit of having a whole separate site, instead of just using the android tag on SD and SuperUser respectively - it avoids segregating experts into a different site.

But I would say that's only after we have a lot of activity on both sites. Until the android tag has, I dunno, 1k+ questions on both SD and SU, we shouldn't create this section, IMO.

Where is that quote from? Android@SE?

Second paragraph: https://android.stackexchange.com/help

If you're going to have a site for Android specifically, the reality is that Android devs are going to provide a lot of the deeper answers because they have to learn the inner workings of the OS to do their dev.

The good thing about both SE and Codidact, is that different sites are found under the same umbrella. If you have an account on one site/community, you pretty much have one in all the others, too. So a developer on Software Development, already has PowerUsers quite easily available, and can participate there with no extra effort (provided the communities aren’t widly different in terms of rules and software solutions, something I’d not like to see happening). I kinda think of this umbrella as this good mix, and adding too many similar communities, makes it hardes to understand the relationships, and harder to discover and involve oneself in other/multiple communities.

Point is, the fewer communities we have, the easier it is to involve oneself in the ones that already exist, and the easier it is to get experts into the communities where they are useful. Adding overlap fragments the userbase.