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I believe the X Overflow are the old format, and are now just grandfathered in. All new ones are in the latter style.


Thanks. What I meant to ask was, given X is the same topic, what is the difference between X overflow and x.stackexchange.com? That is, if there is a general rule.

Perhaps the answer is the same: It's just age. But then if X Overflow already existed, why create a redundant x.stackexchange.com?



That is interesting. I can see the logic there, mostly I'm just impressed that both sites maintain a critical mass of activity, since (at least in recent years) SX seems to require a pretty high level of engagement to get out of perpetual beta.

Does anyone know of any other cases with two similar but distinct SX communities?


Taking a look through https://stackexchange.com/sites, I see several fairly specific programming communities:

askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com

vi.stackexchange.com and emacs.stackexchange.com

stackoverflow.com and codereview.stackexchange.com




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