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This is a classic case for "Be so good that they cannot ignore you".

For such a long time TC have deliberately refrained from mentioning/promoting StackOverflow.

Thank you guys (the SO team and the contributors), for providing such a valuable website for programmers.




There was never a deliberate effort from TC to ignore StackOverflow, I linked to it in some of my posts there.

IIRC we simply were not in the loop on their news, announcements or tips.

A lot of the TC'ers use Quora which is why it is mentioned a lot, but in TC dev we were definitely big fans of StackOverflow, its just that the full-time writers didn't use it or notice it as much.

If you look at Techmeme, you can see that StackOverflow hasn't been getting much attention from the usual tech blogs:

http://techmeme.com/search/query?q=stackoverflow&wm=fals...

I figure it is for the same reason - they weren't actively reaching out to the tech bloggers and instead using their own blogs for PR. Still worked out well for them :)


Quora has become hugely significant in the startup community, it's probably now the largest online community of startup people.


How can you tell how many users there are?


I'm not saying that with any scientific basis, but rather on the basis that a much larger percentage of the startup community seems to be active there than on other sites.

Often when you see someone ask about a random startup you'll get the startup's founder or an investor answering, something which you rarely see elsewhere.




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