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The initial set of SO users were from the Joel on Software forums and from Coding Horror readers (neither of which were strictly Microsoft development sites, bu
by michaelbuckbee 16y ago
The initial set of SO users were from the Joel on Software forums and from Coding Horror readers (neither of which were strictly Microsoft development sites, but both had audiences that skewed heavily in that direction).
One of the simple genius things that SO did was deliberately not segregate the community into product silos: no C#overflow, RubyOverflow, etc. even though at the beginning there was a fairly vocal outcry from users for them to do so.