NEW Experts-Exchange Website

By Oli on Wednesday, 15th November 2006. More information. Comments.

[image] You cannot stop the signal. Indeed you cannot. A few minutes after Experts-Exchange posted an image (on the right) about the new site, I was hurling a massive amount of energy to finding to see if they had a testing subdomain. Don't you just love it when you're right? I

New EE site on its way...

You cannot stop the signal.

Indeed you cannot. A few minutes after Experts-Exchange posted an image (on the right) about the new site, I was hurling a massive amount of energy to finding to see if they had a testing subdomain.

Don't you just love it when you're right? I do. I must say they've done a MASSIVE improvement over the old one although they could tone down the graphics a bit and some of my old VIP bonuses are missing from this one (like being able to store topics at the top so you can quickly switch between different areas).

I'll just wait for them to ban my account now =)

I found them with some DNS wizardry using a little tool (yes I cheated) called dnsenum and that made it very easy to get all the current subdomains... A bit of testing and the rest is history.

Anyway here it is: the new Experts-Exchange website! And another link to the new EE site

Ooo New EE site
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Written by Oli on Wednesday, 15 November 2006. Tagged with experts-exchange, new, webdev, releases. Read 2800 times. If you liked it, please give it a digg.

#1 — Author comment /* 2 years, 2 months ago */
Well that was really childish.

EE killed my post on their site about it and passworded the server. I thought they might like the attention and the useful feedback we were giving them but NO. Ungrateful gits.
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#2 /* 2 years, 1 month ago */
They went a little crazy with the images which has offset the other improvements. One of the main goals in an interactive sight like that is to view the written posts and the new graphics spread them out too much for my tastes.
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#3 /* 2 years, 12 months ago */
Can anyone reach Experts-Exchange?
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Gravatar MadJeeps Anonymous User
#4 /* 2 years, 11 months ago */
stupid website. wants us all to login. buggers
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Gravatar kece Anonymous User
#5 /* 2 years, 10 months ago */
I’ve been participating at EE for some 6 years as an expert and I’m (have been?) the #1 MS Access expert from 2002 till 2007 answering some 7,000 Access questions and posting over 40,000 comments. I was also active as a moderator (modulo and GranMod) for 4 years and posted in that capacity over 100,000 comments.

When you think that such a track record does give you some credit you’re however at the wrong place at EE. I got called names by another member and no action was taken. When I guarded the site from the sometimes crappy comments of this member I got suspended and all links (some 40) in my comments pointing to my page holding previously Access samples and now stating my suspension were removed. (http://www.geocities.com/nico5038/) Finally asking the site owners for an explanation for this suspension gave no response at all.

The new owners have found a way to use innocent volunteers to generate a real cashcow that allows them to run an office with some 15 people and to pay the experts with worthless points that won’t even buy them a cup of Starbucks coffee.

The new interface will have costed a lot of money, but besides the better looks it doesn’t load faster, doesn’t show the questioner anymore and is another example of the foolish American idea that it’s only the outside that counts.

Finally the crappy answered questions (without a real answer and/or with broken links) aren’t getting any attention. The closure of questions to give the experts their points has the first priority as that’s what makes them coming back and getting hooked up.

I’ve found another site www.thescripts.com that’s really for free and that does value experts. It’s growing fast and I meet a lot of old EE collegues there.

Nic;o)

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#6 — Author comment /* 2 years, 10 months ago */
I'd like to say that EE has gone downhill but I think it's always been the same way and it's just our expectations of it that have changed.

The new site makes it a lot harder to screw down on to one generic topic -- as I was doing before in WebDev. I only answer a couple of questions per month now and that's only to maintain a "VIP" account so I can ask my own questions.

I've only seen thescripts from googling. I'll sign up and see what it's really like. Thanks for the pointer nico
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#7 /* 18 months, 15 days ago */
Meh. Who cares? EE is a shitty site that should be banned by Google for violations of TOS: they're cheaters and thieves who present different pages to spiders than to non-spiders.

I hope the whole website gets hacked and goes belly-up. You should all be ashamed of yourself. Go find a free community to share your knowledge.
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