Hacker News Reader

Comment by elchief | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sure why other companies even use forums instead of StackExchange.

SE is poorly suited to actual discussions and any back-and-forth sort of troubleshooting.

I would not do business with any company that puts their customers at the mercy of SE's toxic culture.

SO also doesn't fully endorse[1] using it as a support forum per se.

  [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/3966/is-it-okay-to-use-stack-overflow-as-the-support-forum-for-a-product-or-project

It's vaguely scary to think people will be putting all their traditional forum stuff in SE or Reddit.

Yahoo, Myspace, and Digg all used to be pretty big.

why not reddit? Topical threaded conversation like miles better then the classic forums, they can't die fast enough.

Reddit is great. People used to say that about Yahoo search, and about Digg.