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Stackoverflow. Its closest competitor, experts exchange, was a slow website that required you sign up to see an answer that was rarely useful. There's a direct
by dopeboy 6y ago
Stackoverflow. Its closest competitor, experts exchange, was a slow website that required you sign up to see an answer that was rarely useful. There's a direct correlation to SO and dollars of revenue I've driven.
- scubbo 6y agoTIL that Experts Exchange actually existed, rather than being a meme of "why you should consider how your business name will look as a domain".
- strgcmc 6y agoWhat's wrong with www.ExpertSexChange.com? People deserve to hire experts for that don't they? /s Somewhere out there must be an RFC that discusses the original thought process behind designing for case sensitive vs case insensitive domain names, or why domains should be case insensitive while URL paths should be case sensitive... Ironically this SO post seems to be a decent starting point for my curiosity: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7996919/should-url-be-case-sensitive https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7996919/should-url-be-ca...
- Nition 6y agoIt's still around: http://www.experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com
- Izkata 6y agoTheir old URL doesn't redirect there (take out the dash), so it's understandable that people think it was just a meme/disappeared.
- chx 6y agoI think poor therapists suffered most from the curious nature of how domain name are. Like http://www.therapist.com/ http://www.therapist.com/ still exists but redirects. ... Let's not even mention the plant nursery on the Mole River which ended up with www.molestationnursery.com ...
- scubbo 6y agoAre we allowed to make Arrested Development references on Hacker News?
- petepete 6y agoExperts Exchange also used to do that awful thing where they let Google index the solution but would hide it from visitors until they'd signed in. I believe Google penalised them for doing it so they used another sneaky trick where they showed a obscured/pixelated answer first and then the actual one further down than most people would scroll. SO was better in every way.
- skinkestek 6y ago> Experts Exchange also used to do that awful thing where they let Google index the solution but would hide it from visitors until they'd signed in. This might make someone here angry that they weren't aware of it (or make them smile): This is how they did it: The answers were always visible if you just scrolled far enough down the page. At least that is how I experienced it - and I thought every oldtimer knew! :-)
- petepete 6y agoNo, they only started doing that after Google penalised them for underhand tactics. There's a full description of how it worked on their Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts_Exchange#Paywall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experts_Exchange#Paywall You should probably check before dishing out patronising and incorrect answers.
- Mandatum 6y agoI wouldn't give them 10x, but certainly 2-3x for junior developers compared to predecessors and 1.2x for others. Which is still incredibly significant and nothing to sneeze at.
- jimbokun 6y agoTheir weekly podcast where they discussed progress on building the site that week was fascinating too.
- billfruit 6y agoIts closest competitor has been Quora for several years.
- tape_measure 6y agoStack Overflow is much better than Quora. Quora has gone downhill over the last few years with paid contributions and modal nags. It sea they will also sign me in after I click a link in their email digests. I don't know how that can be secure
- redis_mlc 6y agoNo need to sign-in, you just scrolled to the bottom of the page to see the answer. I don't remember it being slow either.