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Based on my own experience, the way I find answered on SO is by searching on Google. Maybe they just see all the traffic coming to them from the search engines,
by kull 7y ago
Based on my own experience, the way I find answered on SO is by searching on Google. Maybe they just see all the traffic coming to them from the search engines, nobody, unless already logged in, really go to SO.com and type a question. Maybe not logged in users on the homepage are usually people trying to buy a software for their team or more business, finance people, stockholders?
- biesnecker 7y agoSame. I had to go into incognito mode and specifically navigate to the page to see what the fuss was about. I don't think I'd ever seen the SO homepage before that.
- bscphil 7y agoI'll add another same here. I still can't figure out exactly what the fuss is about, after reading the linked question and many of the comments here. Is it that the SO home page doesn't offer any way to search questions, instead giving you links to either sign in or purchase one of their products? If so, I really don't get the problem. Has anyone without a SO account ever gone to their home page to try to look up an issue? Surely it's overwhelmingly more common to just search for an issue directly in a search engine and check the SO links in the results if they turn out to be relevant. And right now, visiting https://stackoverflow.com/ https://stackoverflow.com/ in a private browsing window, I still see a search bar right at the top. I really have no idea what anyone could have a problem with here.
- manigandham 7y agoYou've probably been there before because it was just the questions browsing page.
- matwood 7y agoTIL SO has a home page. Joking aside, I have only ever visited SO through a search engine.
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- dreamcompiler 7y agoSame here. Sometimes I add "off-topic" to the end of my Google query because it finds the best answers on SO.