• @bungle_in_the_jungle
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    267 months ago

    Wow, there’s a throwback!

    I don’t think I’ll ever get over how shortsighted buying that domain name was.

  • @[email protected]
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    147 months ago

    If anything, I thing Stack Overflow replaced Usenet as the source of informal technical advise.

    Never heard of Experts Exchange beyond the jokes.

    • key
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      7 months ago

      There were several years when it would be the top result whenever you searched for a tech problem. Back then usenet was already largely dead, was more about mailing lists and IRC if you couldn’t find a blog or forum post that covered the issue.

  • @[email protected]
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    107 months ago

    Because they kept trying to hide the answers.

    Not sure how old the other posters are here, but I remember experts exchange being useful up to that point. Then stack overflow slowly replaced it in the search results.

  • @[email protected]
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    77 months ago

    “Many felt betrayed to see content they had freely contributed for years get held hostage.” sums it up pretty well.

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    I had no idea experts exchange existed before stack overflow.

    For me, it started showing up in web search results years after stack overflow became popular. And I was confused and annoyed why a copycat with pay walled features (even the answers IIRC) was given priority by search engines.