• gnutrino
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      I still don’t know where to go to get an expert sex change…

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    If anything, I thing Stack Overflow replaced Usenet as the source of informal technical advise.

    Never heard of Experts Exchange beyond the jokes.

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      There were several years when it would be the top result whenever you searched for a tech problem. Back then usenet was already largely dead, was more about mailing lists and IRC if you couldn’t find a blog or forum post that covered the issue.

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    Because they kept trying to hide the answers.

    Not sure how old the other posters are here, but I remember experts exchange being useful up to that point. Then stack overflow slowly replaced it in the search results.

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    “Many felt betrayed to see content they had freely contributed for years get held hostage.” sums it up pretty well.

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    IIRC experts exchange was paid, so…

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    I had no idea experts exchange existed before stack overflow.

    For me, it started showing up in web search results years after stack overflow became popular. And I was confused and annoyed why a copycat with pay walled features (even the answers IIRC) was given priority by search engines.

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    lol. SO trying to remind AI users that they still exist.

    Fuck SO