The Stack Overflow Age
> One of the biggest such forums was called Experts Exchange.<p>By what metric? I don’t know anybody who was actually subscribed there (although they must have existed). Instead, people were using various other forums that were free. Some of these forums were absolutely huge, both in terms of number of users, and by the number of questions/discussions.<p>Experts Exchange started dominating Google search results, true. But I always thought this was merely due to SEO trickery, not because they were actually widely used.<p>Truth be told, I would be hard pressed to even call it a “forum” — typical forums (bulletin boards) functioned very differently.