News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021. Parent comment

Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by brudgers on Monday April 05, 2021 @05:14PM (#26704821)
The upside of the question is it was an example for StackOverflow...a negative example of course. Spolsky talks about it all the time in the early StackOverflow podcasts.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by MiddleEndian on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:23PM (#26705414)
I think they were better than expertsexchange at least. It was low quality but it was simple and free to access.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by aidenn0 on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:11PM (#26707591)
expertsexchange had possibly the best (inadvertent?) double-entendre domain name ever.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021 by MiddleEndian on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:44AM (#26708010)
Can't argue with that lol
[ Parent | on HN ]