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How Stack Overflow replaced Experts Exchange
- gremlinExtra 3y agoCan truly never get over "expertsexchange.com" What were they thinking...
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoThe world wasn't ready. Now in the 2020s we could do it, a public tech support site staffed entirely by transgender programmers.
- misswaterfairy 3y ago> SEO trickery helped Experts Exchange leverage its large repository of questions as marketing bait, but its business model of charging for access to answers then pushed the company to optimize paid conversation even if it meant grinding down user tolerance. Many felt betrayed to see content they had freely contributed for years get held hostage. Pretty much the crux of it.