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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by caf »

bhandziuk wrote: post #428
einpoklum wrote: post #260

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Yeah, the reputation model is nowhere near representative of the significance of your contribution. Just try not to take it overly seriously... I got my reputation asking > 1,000 questions and answering > 1,200 , and I can't say whether I should be higher up than people with 10x less reputation than me or 2x more than me.

I like their approximate people reached metric. I've answered at lot of VBA questions which get a lot of views but not necessarily from developers who might have an account. I suspect they are mostly anonymous users and thus the answers get a lot of views but relatively few votes.

I've looked at the 'people reached' metric and wondered: does this mean that, objectively speaking, the greatest impact I'll have on the world will turn out to have been a few stackoverflow answers?

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

xchaotic wrote: post #569
z3t4 wrote: post #558

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High reward for joining early is a good growth strategy.

It is also why crypto is having a run. Basically a Ponzi scheme that rewards early adopters

Yep like the stock market and the idea of money.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by ThomasRedstone »

xchaotic wrote: post #569
z3t4 wrote: post #558

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High reward for joining early is a good growth strategy.

It is also why crypto is having a run. Basically a Ponzi scheme that rewards early adopters

That isn't how a Ponzi scheme works, a Ponzi scheme directly uses fees taken from new members to pay out older ones, lying and saying it's from actual business activity.

Crypto doesn't behave any differently than the stock market (except the fundamentals are a little shakier, okay, a lot shakier).

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by stjohnswarts »

pier25 wrote: post #532
chairmanwow1 wrote: post #395

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Their app is 2x slower than their mobile site and their new mobile site is 4x slower than their old site. Why do these brands feel the need to make everything a fucking SPA.

I agree. old.reddit.com + RES is still the best Reddit experience.

by FAR

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

gm3dmo wrote: post #502
joelbluminator wrote: post #366

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> Since my loyalty to SO is approximately zero That's you though. It's not about loyalty, it's about Stackoverflow almost becoming a verb like Google. Many many people are used to using it, it's brand is very powerful. I don't see some competing tool stealing lots of mind share. Btw the thing about talking to maintainers directly is already done on small communities on discuss pages (ElixirForum for instance), on Dis…

TomTom and BlackBerry had great brands, marketing and great software stacks. I still correct the google maps voice when it tells me to take the third exit on the roundabout. It’s “roundabound”. The people who ran those companies didn’t see anybody stealing their businesses either. Yet they are well and truly gone. https://youtu.be/ATulnxruvhQ

> I still correct the google maps voice when it tells me to take the third exit on the roundabout. It’s “roundabound”.

If it's saying "roundabout," I hope you're not correcting it to "roundabound," because "roundabout" is the correct word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by stjohnswarts »

Dah00n wrote: post #543
sillysaurusx wrote: post #331

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I dunno. Reddit seems like an example of a successful acquisition. Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it. But I agree with you overall. I'm a bit nervous too. Stack Overflow is so good, and its fate is now entirely in the hands of the purchaser. EDIT: In the other announcement post ( https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2021/06/02/kinda-a-big-announ... ): Today we’re pleased to announce that Stack Overfl…

>Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it. That.... is a very positive view of Reddit. I'd say everything on Reddit is way worse now and going downhill fast.

No it isn't.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by narag »

bhandziuk wrote: post #571
narag wrote: post #553

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The threshold is very low. Well, not low enough for me. After a few attempts to answer some questions early on, I gave up. Read only for me. I don't even remember what the problem was. Why making contributing difficult and consuming easy? I guess it worked for them. Counterintuitive, but nice jackpot.

As far as I can remember it's always been this way: very low barrier to entry. All you have to do is make an account to ask and answer questions. I don't know why you had a hard time posting. Maybe you're thinking of commenting? The counter is ExpertsExchange: very difficult to do both.

No idea, but I was just trying to answer some questions. I remember vaguely that I needed some points to help and I needed to help to get the points, so... I shrugged and let it be.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by stjohnswarts »

thefz wrote: post #387
skunkworker wrote: post #337

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Conde Nast also owns Ars Technica, which personally is my favorite tech-news site and has high and consistent quality.

Yes and no. Article comment can be toxic downvote brigades to anyone who does not adhere to the hive's opinion and Ars is a mala fide Apple boot licker to the bone. Ars forums have gone to hell in this regard.

If you don't like downvotes then make your own subreddit and attract like opinions. I personally don't think posts should be voted more negative than -1.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by narag »

joe463369 wrote: post #573
narag wrote: post #553

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The threshold is very low. Well, not low enough for me. After a few attempts to answer some questions early on, I gave up. Read only for me. I don't even remember what the problem was. Why making contributing difficult and consuming easy? I guess it worked for them. Counterintuitive, but nice jackpot.

As helpful as you no doubt would be, until you interact with SO in some way you're indistinguishable from a misleading moron.

That wasn't a problem in any of the other forums I've contributed to. Go figure!
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