I'm a member of a few active old-school forums. The reason they didn't grow like StackOverflow did is because you really need to spend a lot of time reading through garbage (small talk, etc) to get to the good stuff.
The answer to the question (as posed in the title), might be 3 pages away. With StackOverflow, the answer is almost always immediately under the question since it's been voted into that position.
I'm a member of a few active old-school forums. The reason they didn't grow like StackOverflow did is because you really need to spend a lot of time reading through garbage (small talk, etc) to get to the good stuff.
The answer to the question (as posed in the title), might be 3 pages away. With StackOverflow, the answer is almost always immediately under the question since it's been voted into that position.