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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 ping_pong »

jbb_hn wrote: post #653
chadlavi wrote: post #458

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"You've read 3 of your 5 free answers this month"

Sadly, I think you probably nailed it. Back in the day, “experts exchange” was the place to get answers to questions, and look where they’re at. 2 billion dollars. That’s a LOT of money even by 2021 standards. You better believe the investors will be looking for their ROI.

Experts exchange was NEVER the place to get answers. They just perfected the SEO so that Google would point to them first. But everything was behind paywalls and it was never useful.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by andreareina »

jakub_g wrote: post #402
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.

Plus the constant nag to install the app on mobile, and sometimes even downright blocking access and "see in the app". (For now there's still "old." subdomain which works if you enable desktop emulation on mobile, but it can shut down any day).

i.reddit.com is mobile-optimized while still having the old.reddit.com sensibilities.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by wraptile »

ddingus wrote: post #318

While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst. From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise. Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to…

StackOverflow was successfully expanding their service even before this purchase. I'd imagine stackoverflow jobs is a valuable area - sure it's not linkedin but it's still really good. SO also has really strong community following so there's always room for easy expanding.

It's not about the QA area but other areas that surround it. There are a lot of ways to integrate products to QA part of the web - you already see "Python jobs" on python questions which I'd imagine should work really well!

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by hirako2000 »

ssaturn wrote: post #477
will4274 wrote: post #464

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> Conde Nast managed not to destroy Reddit after buying it. I would have said the exact opposite. The Reddit community was destroyed. People no longer recommend Reddit for interesting discussions or speak excitedly about its communities. Conde Nast monetized and changed Reddit, recouping their investment, and now it's hard to find people who have good things to say about it. Consider e.g. /r/darknetplan or similar to…

Where can I find links to these discord invites?

https://disboard.org/servers/tag/darknet

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by quickthrower2 »

chadlavi wrote: post #458
ddingus wrote: post #318

While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst. From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise. Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to…

"You've read 3 of your 5 free answers this month"

SO is CC at the moment IIRC - time to download it all and stick the historic stuff on a static site

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by quickthrower2 »

jope12 wrote: post #701
ddingus wrote: post #318

While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst. From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise. Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to…

The whole point of creating Stack Overflow was to not have subscription access like Experts Exchange. Doing that would be suicide for SO.

That was a long time ago. SO has the network effects to pull this off

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by andy_ppp »

I do wonder about some sort of partnership with the people using your platform might be good. What if the top 10,000 people got a proportional share of this cash towards their contributions. Stack overflow wasn’t made just by those who have shares in it...

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by z0ltan »

ddingus wrote: post #318

While I'm happy for the people who made a lot of money in this transaction, I always read these announcements with a bit of angst. From a user point of view, I expect this to go like Reddit has, for example. Everyone building that value saw high use value, returns on their investment in the form of information they need, lean, easy to find, high signal to noise. Now there is a debt to be paid. The new owner needs to…

Asking the right questions indeed.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by z0ltan »

picodguyo wrote: post #487
skeeter2020 wrote: post #347

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>> The entire company is staying in place: we just have different owners now. I've been a part of a couple of these. This statement is somewhere on the spectrum of absolutely naive to willfully disingenuous. "Someone just paid 2 billion dollars to buy us, but they're not going to change anything, exert any influence or expect payback beyond what we've already been doing."

Yep. At best this holds true for 12-18 months. The founders/execs play dumb in the interest of minimizing attrition.

Yup.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by giansegato »

andy_ppp wrote: post #747

I do wonder about some sort of partnership with the people using your platform might be good. What if the top 10,000 people got a proportional share of this cash towards their contributions. Stack overflow wasn’t made just by those who have shares in it...

As far as I understand it, that's the key idea behind DAOs
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