Comment on You can't imagine how much this annoyed me...

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was experts-exchange.com

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can really see why they put the hyphen in. expert sexchange would be a very different website.

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  • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, yeah, that one site known to be one of the reasons Stackoverflow was created

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    • lawrence@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you very much for the information. I always found it strange that Stack Overflow and Experts Exchange are so similar, yet have such different business models.

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  • Z4rK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For your consolation, many “answers” there are poor and just copy pasted from some open website anyway.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s ok, I found a solution to my problem soon afterwards and I think it’s safe to say that their solution is just some general troubleshooting stuff anyway. I wonder if the original poster even ‘verified’ the solution or if that’s just part of their paywall-scheme.

      What surprises me is that this site has been doing this for long time, I always thought putting paywalls in front of everything was more of a web3.0 thing.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No shock there. They have been that way since 2007. It is why the SpiceWorks community took so much.

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  • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to block search results from that site for this very reason. I don’t seem to ever get anything from them anymore though.

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    • FireWire400@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had never heard of it before coming across this, this is the first time I’ve seen a paywall over what essentially is a forum post

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      • fiat_lux@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They used to be very big and dominated search results for various technical information, before stackoverflow was a thing. It was so infuriating when the only possible clue to your niche bug was an experts-exchange paywall. And that happened a lot for way too long, after it went bankrupt and was bought by venture capitalists.

        I'm so very glad they're mostly irrelevant now, they made the early 2000's internet more painful than it needed to be.

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    • b000urns@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How? 🙏 Years back there was an option is Google SERPs to do it… until they removed it 🙄

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      • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Using the built in Google option. It was years ago though.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. I’ll make sure to stay away from there.

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