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by rconti 2998 days ago
I don't know a lot of people who subscribe to stackoverflow either. Use it? yes. Subscribe? no.
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In order to view an answer on Experts Exchange, you had to subscribe.
I used to change my user agent to be that of a Google Bot
Did you? I always just scrolled past the fold.
I think they changed it once SO started becoming popular (I may be misremembering the timeline, but I definitely remember being very frustrated about not being able to view the answers at one point)
I think they may have had a google-wall: if you came from google you could scroll down to the content, but if you were just browsing the forum you couldn't see the answers.
Experts Exchange used to cost money to use. (a subscription)