Can/Should our short site description be changed to better reflect what we are about?

Question

I shared a link to Code Review on Facebook and noticed what the description said about our beloved site:

Q&A for peer programmer code reviews

I got the feeling that this includes questions about Code Reviews, which is not on-topic here but on Programmers. So I was thinking: How can this be improved?

I am suggesting that this should be changed to something like this:

Q&A for getting reviews on your own working code

This simple line incorporates two important things for on-topic questions:

• The code should be your own
• The code should be working

This is just a draft of course, other suggestions are welcome.

Consider this post a feature-request to change the wording of this text.

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Update:

So, the short description can be changed, but:

• it has to start with Q&A for .....
• it has to be approved by the SE folk.
• it has to "not suck" in order to be approved.

It is something we should be happy with, and we should get it right, I don't want to have to ask to have it changed again.

Answer 1

Simon suggested,

Q&A for getting reviews on your own working code

Looking at the short descriptions for other sites, they all start with:

Q&A for 'type of person'

To be similar our should not say "... for reviews": it should say "... for software developers", or "... for programmers". 'Software developers' is a bit too formal or professional so I suggest,

Q&A for programmers "sharing code from projects you are working on for peer review".

The quoted portion of the text above is taken from the the About page.

The above is not necessarily too long, for example compared with some from other sites:

• Databases

  Q&A for researchers and developers who explore the principles of a system through analysis of its structure, function, and operation

• Statistics

  Q&A for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data visualization

Editing the above to resolve the 3rd person ("programmers") versus 2nd person ("you are working on"):

Q&A for programmers to share selections from their own source code for peer review.

The About page doesn't say that code needs to be "working": perhaps it should. I'm not sure how best to describe that:

• ... from their own working source code ...
• ... from their own finished source code ...
• ... from their own functioning source code ...
• ... from their own completed source code ...
• ... from their own polished source code ...
• ... from their own deliverable source code ...
• ...?

I like Simon's suggestion better than the About page: "getting reviews on" is better than "sharing for review". So:

Code Review

Q&A for programmers to get peer reviews of their finished source code.

Looking through the short descriptions for other sites I don't think we can get too pedantically specific/restrictive/exclusive; the descriptions are meant to be attractive, not off-putting; for example StackOverflow's is just, "Q&A for professional and enthusiast programmers".

If you want to add detail they would rather you describe the type of person (community) than the type of code (defining on- and off-topic).

Answer 2

I am in favour of:

Q&A for improving your code - working code working better