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Not on HN, but I remember the initial demo of imgur being torn to bits on reddit. And when Joel Spolsky announced his idea that would eventually turn into Stack
by sopooneo 10y ago
Not on HN, but I remember the initial demo of imgur being torn to bits on reddit. And when Joel Spolsky announced his idea that would eventually turn into StackOverflow, it was derided as useless because the work already had enough question/answer sites.
- e19293001 10y agoFound this page: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/71i4v/stack_overflow_launched_into_public/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/71i4v/stack_ov... Much people don't like experts exchange and found this site much better.
- fphhotchips 10y agoMy favourite comment (on Reddit): The fact that Joel Spolsky can jump in and arbitrarily add and remove to what a person wrote is a little unsettling.
- fiftyacorn 10y agoThis comment is still true - "The only problem with Stack Overflow is that the rate of activity pushes all but the easiest questions off the front page quite rapidly. Most people there just answer the easiest questions and ignore the hard ones." You notice when uni's go back the questions are often just homework