How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange

Posted by fosterfriends on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:40AM
from the graphite.dev dept.

https://graphite.dev/blog/stack-overflow-vs-experts-exchange

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Re:How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange by gremlinExtra on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:26AM (#39943570)

Can truly never get over "expertsexchange.com"

What were they thinking...

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Re:How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:00PM (#39946523)

The world wasn't ready. Now in the 2020s we could do it, a public tech support site staffed entirely by transgender programmers.

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Re:How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange by misswaterfairy on Friday April 05, 2024 @10:52PM (#39949606)

> SEO trickery helped Experts Exchange leverage its large repository of questions as marketing bait, but its business model of charging for access to answers then pushed the company to optimize paid conversation even if it meant grinding down user tolerance. Many felt betrayed to see content they had freely contributed for years get held hostage.

Pretty much the crux of it.

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