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I'm 90% sure that 15M of those new users are just Jon Skeet clones that upvote him! But in all seriousness, stackexchange have completely stolen the parade fro

I'm 90% sure that 15M of those new users are just Jon Skeet clones that upvote him! But in all seriousness, stackexchange have completely stolen the parade from all other community driven Q&A sites. Joel was correct when he withdraw support for customer hosted Stack sites, and went through the incubation process. Stackoverflow has totally wiped out all of the other failing programming websites, and the community is a great one to be apart of. (I hated those sites that would obfuscate all the answers and try and get you to pay to sign up, while cloaking everything on Google). Congrats.

Turing_Machine 15y ago
I certainly don't miss wading through all those crap Experts Exchange links in the Google results (actually the advice on that site was often pretty good, but the business model was repellant).
- manojlds 15y ago
  Weird part was that though the answers were obfuscated, all you had to do was to scroll down the page and get the answers - what a joke! But the answers were good.
  - icebraining 15y ago
    That's to ensure Google could read them. If they hid the answers the Googlebot wouldn't include them in the search index.
- Eric_Peterson 15y ago
  http://beta.experts-exchange.com http://beta.experts-exchange.com It took us a while to convince EE to change its strategy, but with some help from a giant Panda, EE has been convinced to implement a "Freemium" model at the end of the month when it launches a completely rebuilt site. Take a look... Eric / Netminder Senior Admin Experts Exchange
avgarrison 15y ago
Whenever I'm stumped and turn to google with a programming question, it's always such a relief to see SO as the top result. No other site has the same quality of answers, IMO.
- saryant 15y ago
  Absolutely. I'm doing some work in ASP at the moment and whenever I see asp.net results at the top I know I'm in for a world of hurt.
apg 15y ago
I'd love for non-programming sites like http://diy.stackexchange.com/ http://diy.stackexchange.com/ to catch on. I feel a little queasy every my most relevant search leads me to Yahoo Answers.

Turing_Machine 15y ago

I certainly don't miss wading through all those crap Experts Exchange links in the Google results (actually the advice on that site was often pretty good, but the business model was repellant).

manojlds 15y ago
Weird part was that though the answers were obfuscated, all you had to do was to scroll down the page and get the answers - what a joke! But the answers were good.
- icebraining 15y ago
  That's to ensure Google could read them. If they hid the answers the Googlebot wouldn't include them in the search index.
Eric_Peterson 15y ago
http://beta.experts-exchange.com http://beta.experts-exchange.com It took us a while to convince EE to change its strategy, but with some help from a giant Panda, EE has been convinced to implement a "Freemium" model at the end of the month when it launches a completely rebuilt site. Take a look... Eric / Netminder Senior Admin Experts Exchange

avgarrison 15y ago

Whenever I'm stumped and turn to google with a programming question, it's always such a relief to see SO as the top result. No other site has the same quality of answers, IMO.

saryant 15y ago
Absolutely. I'm doing some work in ASP at the moment and whenever I see asp.net results at the top I know I'm in for a world of hurt.

apg 15y ago

I'd love for non-programming sites like http://diy.stackexchange.com/ http://diy.stackexchange.com/ to catch on. I feel a little queasy every my most relevant search leads me to Yahoo Answers.