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by jkuria 6204 days ago
Experts-exchange may be lame to many of the folks on this list because it is perhaps more useful to a 'light weight' crowd with a more IT bent (rather than hard core developer). I would venture to say that StackOverflow will NEVER match experts-exchange in traffic. There are just not that many smart programmers compared to the masses of IT folks and the general public that EE caters to.
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Which is why Jeff and Joel are also rolling out serverfault.com and superuser.com

experts-exchange gets most of its traffic from gaming Google. It isn't that useful of a site.

StackOverflow probably will beat Experts-Exchange, as will the other services they'll starting. If you have a good free service and a good pay service, the free service will win out. Experts-Exchange will survive for a while, sure, but StackOverflow is an excellent service, and on the whole I think it's the better one.