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0 pointsjope124y ago0 comments

The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.

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quickthrower24y ago

That was a long time ago. SO has the network effects to pull this off

toyg4y ago

SO can be cloned very easily nowadays. Network effects are actually getting worse with time; fewer and fewer people actually hang around SO, and it's increasingly spammed by students looking for free homework and people gaming for reputation.

As soon as SO vacates the free tier even a little bit, someone else will jump in.

DaiPlusPlus4y ago

SO is already cloned - every few months another new SO content farm comes along and clogs up the Google search results.

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