Experts-exchange.com - Anyone use it?

[TheFaQQer]

£20/month if paid monthly, £10/month for 6 months (£60), £100 for whole year.

Currently got free trial but wondering if anyone has used this long term. Any good?

Or better off sticking with free forums?

They're great. Why don't you sign up and move over there?

[speling bee]

They're great. Why don't you sign up and move over there?

That might create a worrying new trend.

[Netminder]

Why not?

Disclaimer: I'm one of Experts Exchange's administrators. I'm not an employee, but have been a member since 1999 and part of the volunteer staff since 2002. Same username there as here, so I'm not that hard to track down.

psychocandy,

Currently got free trial but wondering if anyone has used this long term.

You could say that, yes... *laughing* ... I've never paid for EE; like a lot of people, I answered questions and have earned the Premium Services subscription, but you can use most of EE without having the paid/earned services. About the only things an unpaid subscription can't do are ask questions and browse through the Previously Asked Questions (PAQ).

The paywall disappeared about six months ago, though. Now, if you go to EE from SERPs, whether you're a member or not, you'll see the actual page.

doodab,

Old, tired joke. EE never did use the unhyphenated version as a domain, and bought it at one time just to bury it but decided it wasn't worth it. It's now owned by a hit farm.

vetran,

I find someone as stupid as me has already asked the question

Ain't that great? Keeps computer types working all over the world. Heaven forbid someone actually writes an OS/program that people can't screw up somehow...

NickFitz,

Stackoverflow was created for the sole purpose of rendering the wretched and horrible Experts Exchange irrelevant. It's done a good job of that, IMHO

Doesn't suck to have Matt Cutts on speed dial either. But unlike Stack, EE actually has a business model that works, so despite Mr Atwood and Mr Spolsky doing everything they can, including kissing Mr Cutts where he likes it, to shut it down, EE has survived Panda and the innumerable algorithm changes Google has thrown at it, survived any number of threads and posts filled with ... um... "inaccurate information", and just released a fairly important update yesterday.

Yes, Stack is free. Good for them; they'll no doubt make it up on the volume. There are also over 760,000 people who have never gotten their questions answered, and who knows how many more that have been deleted because... well... someone didn't like the way it was written. Stack's family of sites is about coming up with the "right" or "best" -- not with solving your problem. I would be ashamed of myself to be running a site that purports to solve problems to have that many that aren't solved.

That Experts Exchange has built its community around actually being about solving someone's problem instead of feeding the egos of Red Bull infused junior developers is fine with me; there's room in the world for all kinds.

All,

It isn't my intent to convince anyone to move to a different site; if you're happy with someplace else, that's okay with me. On the other hand, if you haven't been to EE for a while, it's worth taking a look at.

Thank you for your attention.

N

[speling bee]

Disclaimer: I'm one of Experts Exchange's administrators. I'm not an employee, but have been a member since 1999 and part of the volunteer staff since 2002. Same username there as here, so I'm not that hard to track down.

psychocandy,

Currently got free trial but wondering if anyone has used this long term.

You could say that, yes... *laughing* ... I've never paid for EE; like a lot of people, I answered questions and have earned the Premium Services subscription, but you can use most of EE without having the paid/earned services. About the only things an unpaid subscription can't do are ask questions and browse through the Previously Asked Questions (PAQ).

The paywall disappeared about six months ago, though. Now, if you go to EE from SERPs, whether you're a member or not, you'll see the actual page.

doodab,

Old, tired joke. EE never did use the unhyphenated version as a domain, and bought it at one time just to bury it but decided it wasn't worth it. It's now owned by a hit farm.

vetran,

I find someone as stupid as me has already asked the question

Ain't that great? Keeps computer types working all over the world. Heaven forbid someone actually writes an OS/program that people can't screw up somehow...

NickFitz,

Stackoverflow was created for the sole purpose of rendering the wretched and horrible Experts Exchange irrelevant. It's done a good job of that, IMHO

Doesn't suck to have Matt Cutts on speed dial either. But unlike Stack, EE actually has a business model that works, so despite Mr Atwood and Mr Spolsky doing everything they can, including kissing Mr Cutts where he likes it, to shut it down, EE has survived Panda and the innumerable algorithm changes Google has thrown at it, survived any number of threads and posts filled with ... um... "inaccurate information", and just released a fairly important update yesterday.

Yes, Stack is free. Good for them; they'll no doubt make it up on the volume. There are also over 760,000 people who have never gotten their questions answered, and who knows how many more that have been deleted because... well... someone didn't like the way it was written. Stack's family of sites is about coming up with the "right" or "best" -- not with solving your problem. I would be ashamed of myself to be running a site that purports to solve problems to have that many that aren't solved.

That Experts Exchange has built its community around actually being about solving someone's problem instead of feeding the egos of Red Bull infused junior developers is fine with me; there's room in the world for all kinds.

All,

It isn't my intent to convince anyone to move to a different site; if you're happy with someplace else, that's okay with me. On the other hand, if you haven't been to EE for a while, it's worth taking a look at.

Thank you for your attention.

N

Does that mean you'll be taking psychocandy with you?

[d000hg]

It isn't my intent to convince anyone to move to a different site; if you're happy with someplace else, that's okay with me.

Is that why you slag off the other, massively popular, sites and make cheap jibes about them, rather than merely pointing out EE's particular strengths? Maybe it wasn't intentional but it reads like a salesman or politician trying to push down a competitor to look better in comparison - I have no problem with the idea that SO isn't perfect and that EE is better in some cases, but try and get me to swallow the idea SO is embarrassing when it is now the top Google result for the majority of programming questions I ask, and I'm disinclined to take anything else you say seriously.

[eek]

Is that why you slag off the other, massively popular, sites and make cheap jibes about them, rather than merely pointing out EE's particular strengths? Maybe it wasn't intentional but it reads like a salesman or politician trying to push down a competitor to look better in comparison - I have no problem with the idea that SO isn't perfect and that EE is better in some cases, but try and get me to swallow the idea SO is embarrassing when it is now the top Google result for the majority of programming questions I ask, and I'm disinclined to take anything else you say seriously.

I think the mates of Matt Cutts comment was an attempt to justify why EE are no longer top of the tree.

The simple fact is that SO is linkable to, EE for many years wasn't resulting in SO leaping up the page ranks. Everything else is soar grapes which on reflection is exactly how the entirety of EE's sales pitch comes across..

EE had the market, tried to fleece everyone to make money and the world moved away from them...

[d000hg]

I've always liked the idea of sites you can offer money for someone to spend more than a passing amount of time on your problem. SO does get people writing long, excellent replies (from genuine interest rather than ego tripping in most cases) but you can't guarantee it and if your question is a bit specialist or requires some research/testing, you probably won't get much luck. Being able to use a site like EE as a sort of micro-freelancing site appeals to me: "I want sample code how to build an MP4 video from a 256x256 array I keep re-populating".

[fullyautomatix]

Before Stack came along, EE was always on top for programming related questions and when it was free it was quite good. It then had its moment when it thought it could charge users and when it hid behind the paywall Google decided to downvote it. I think then to get around that problem, EE was displaying the actual thread content right below the page and if you did bother to scroll down you would realise you didnt need to login.

[jmo21]

Is that why you slag off the other, massively popular, sites and make cheap jibes about them, rather than merely pointing out EE's particular strengths? Maybe it wasn't intentional but it reads like a salesman or politician trying to push down a competitor to look better in comparison - I have no problem with the idea that SO isn't perfect and that EE is better in some cases, but try and get me to swallow the idea SO is embarrassing when it is now the top Google result for the majority of programming questions I ask, and I'm disinclined to take anything else you say seriously.

This.

I think the mates of Matt Cutts comment was an attempt to justify why EE are no longer top of the tree.

The simple fact is that SO is linkable to, EE for many years wasn't resulting in SO leaping up the page ranks. Everything else is soar grapes which on reflection is exactly how the entirety of EE's sales pitch comes across..

EE had the market, tried to fleece everyone to make money and the world moved away from them...

This.

Does that mean you'll be taking psychocandy with you?

And for the love of god......THIS!

Also, Suity.

[Gittins Gal]

Hmmm... inneresting.

I haven't read the whine thread and I cant outlive that sumbody else hasn't mentioned this buf why bother forking out for a substitution when you can just scroll th the bottom of the pjge to see the answrt?