Today we got a software recommendation code which was asking for a code that can do TDDFT or BSE: Is there any DFT code or software that implemented forces of TDDFT or BSE calculations for solids?
Unlike our favorite software-recommendation question that asked for a software that can do X: Is there a free package with robust CASSCF functionality? where we got several different programs for doing X and could rank them based on how goo they are at doing X, the above question is asking for software that can do X or Y.
The answers can look as follows:
- This software can do Y (this was the first answer so far, where ProfM suggested a program that can do BSE)
- This software can do X
- This software can do Y
- This software can do X
- This software can do Y
It seems a bit messier than the example where someone asks just for a software that can do X.
Do we want to encourage the user to ask one question about software that can do TDDFT, and another question that asks about software that can do BSE? The more questions we have the more visible we become: https://stackexchange.com/sites and therefore the more our site grows. However we also don't want to become "cheap" and ask an unnecessarily degree of trivial questions.