Experts ExchangeReviews of experts-exchange.com

EE is my favorite knowledge repository on the web for both breadth and depth of expertise for anything related to the digital realm. Plus, it's nice to see the company keeping up with the pace of the digital era by encouraging networking, enabling real-time support, and constantly optimizing the functionality of the site. I'm not saying it's perfect, but they try and it shows. That's the most we can ask of ourselves too, right? ;) I've had questions covering IT networking, Excel, R, Google Analytics, statistics, math, Word, AppleScripts, html, javascript, etc. and there's always someone to offer a helping piece of advice or a whole answer. At times, I've even had multiple answers provided, and respondents tend to do a good job at helping teach you along the way if you want it. The on-demand feature of EE is really nice if you're in a jam and need a quick answer; it's something I find incredibly valuable for my small business needs too. You're going to get trolls sometimes, as with anything in life, but the Mods and Admins do a nice job at handling them or privately discussing the matters with you to resolve it politely. Do your best to ignore and flag them. And even if you don't participate as a question-asker or answer-giver, it's just a wonderful knowledge base that's easy and fun to use.

A few years back I thought it was a great site an I often recommended it. Now, while it still has value, I would probably not reccomend it.

I had a month trial with Experts Exchange and I was very happy with the answers I received to my questions...eventually! I wrote about 5-10 questions during that month, nothing that I would consider abusive or even close to 'unfair usage', but each question I seemed to answer would always get either an irrelevant response, or would take around 5 posts to get a response that is actually relevant or related to my question. Whether this is the experts', that EE hires, technique to get more money for the amount of posts they make or whether it's to do with just genuine misunderstanding, it seemed to happen quite often - now I know it's normal for humans to misunderstand things, but the responses just made it seem deliberate (meaning, I never usually have issue with people misunderstanding as I am quite clear with my words) Overall, whilst I would eventually get the responses I'm looking for, the community is pretty friendly (even though I did have one moment where my thread was turned into a discussion between two experts for like three pages) and gets you decent, timely support 24/7 at a great price - unfortunately however I've seen free support forums give almost the same support if not better, so I would only recommend paying for EE if you want a quick response and can't wait.

It's full of people who have more skills than I do and answer questions when I post them. I don't know where else I could turn for the same quality of responses. Sometimes Google just doesn't cut it for more technical questions, that's when this site is most useful.

I really love Experts-Exchange: I'm member from 2010 and I find this membership a tremendously effective way not only to share my knowledge but even and overall to increase it and improve my programming skills. And when I asked a question, I always found helpful people which gave me their suggestion even when the actual problem was solved and the thread closed. Because of this, Experts-Exchange is not only the best place to find solutions but a good place to find friends too, and to discuss technlogy related arguments with true skilled professionals.

I love this site! I have been a long time member and it has saved me so many times.I use the site constantly for work issues as well as ones in my personal projects. There are always plenty of people to help you out. You can get a variety of answers and ways to solve an issue. Everyone knows there is usually more than one way to solve something. Here you will get all the answers, not just the vendor specific ones you get on help forums. I highly recommend this site to anyone whether or not you are tech-savvy!

Like most developers, I have enlisted the help from a variety of IT forums. A few are helpful, and most take days of multiple turnarounds. Often there is no reply if the issue is at all more complex. I have found with my three requests within my first month of using Expert Exchange, that the assistance was mostly quick and the experts persistent in trying to understand the issues. Two out of the three were excellent at assessing my technical competence level, while one was highly technical and did not appreciate my less-than-them level of expertise. The credentials of this expert were very limited, whereas the credentials of the other three experts solving two issues were extensive. Their help moved my high security web dev forward significantly, for which I am grateful. Thanks guys :)

When I need some help in IT I usually google it, but some times you don't find answers that meet your needs, In Expert Exchange I really surprised about the kind of questions they can answer, and to be honest Expert Exchange can respond to any questions that you imagine, they are really Experts.