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You are still more than welcome to continue to ask technical questions about DSpace on mailing lists (specifically dspace-tech and dspace-devel), or using one of the other options listed in our Support Guide.

DSpace Developers have noticed that it can sometimes be difficult to determine the "best answer" to a question on mailing lists (or even in the mailing list archives). While you may get an answer to your question, you may not be able to tell if others agree that is the "best answer", or if it's just one of several possible answers. There are some questions that are asked frequently, which we'd all like to be able to "just Google". StackOverflow helps to solve both of these problems, as questions and answers appear prominently in Google search results, and it allows all users to "vote up" the best answer to a specific question.

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• How do I customize the DSpace XMLUI so that the side menu is on the left side? (Or any sort of customization related question)
• How do I configure DSpace to connect to my local LDAP (or Shibboleth)?
• How do I get DSpace to run on port 80 instead of port 8080?
• I'm trying to add some custom code into my DSpace, and it's not working right. Here's a code snippet and the error I'm seeing: ______
• (Most any other question regarding customizing or configuring/setting up your DSpace instance)

Here are some examples of DSpace questions that are probably NOT on-topic for StackOverflow (Instead these types of questions can just be asked on our mailing lists):

• How have you tweaked your DSpace so that it scales better? (Question is too subjective for StackOverflow, as there's not really a "right" answer to the question)
• Do you have any recommendations for best Operating System for installing DSpace? (Again, too subjective for StackOverflow.)

For more information on what is considered "on-topic" for StackOverflow see: https://stackoverflow.com/help/on-topic

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