[sopooneo]

Not on HN, but I remember the initial demo of imgur being torn to bits on reddit. And when Joel Spolsky announced his idea that would eventually turn into StackOverflow, it was derided as useless because the work already had enough question/answer sites.

[e19293001]

Found this page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/71i4v/stack_ov...

Much people don't like experts exchange and found this site much better.

[fphhotchips]

My favourite comment (on Reddit): The fact that Joel Spolsky can jump in and arbitrarily add and remove to what a person wrote is a little unsettling.

[fiftyacorn]

This comment is still true -

"The only problem with Stack Overflow is that the rate of activity pushes all but the easiest questions off the front page quite rapidly. Most people there just answer the easiest questions and ignore the hard ones."

You notice when uni's go back the questions are often just homework