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Stack Overflow vs Zhihu

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

Stack Overflow

A question-and-answer website where programmers ask and answer technical questions about software development, with community voting, tags and reputation; also sells a private Q&A product for companies and job/advertising services.

Zhihu

Chinese-language social question-and-answer site where users ask questions, post answers and articles, and follow topics, with additional features such as live talks, paid knowledge content and online fiction.

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