DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by nilsandrey » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:51 PM UTC

DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
css-tricks.com

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by novateg » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

I've been using the CSS-Tricks site since 2008. It's one of the best sites on internet and has great community of developers. Congrats to Chris Coyier and the team!

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by lelandfe » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

I’ll be the first to say: congrats to Chris! Just an excellent guy - and he’s been contributing so much good writing to the web development community for so long, he deserves a pay day.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by bilekas » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 12:59 PM UTC

Does seem a bit of a strange fit for DigitalOcean. That said, they seem like a solid company and they really do have some really good tutorials/knowledgebase.

Sounds like a good time to sell it off though and hope they have the same success with future projects.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #4

Does seem a bit of a strange fit for DigitalOcean. That said, they seem like a solid company and they really do have some really good tutorials/knowledgebase. Sounds like a good time to sell it off though and hope they have the same success with future projects.

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by azemetre » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #4

Does seem a bit of a strange fit for DigitalOcean. That said, they seem like a solid company and they really do have some really good tutorials/knowledgebase. Sounds like a good time to sell it off though and hope they have the same success with future projects.

Not that strange. DigitalOcean has (or had?) a great forum for asking tech questions on setting up droplets and other DO services. It was very community driven. I relied on it often when I first made my VPS back in 2013.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by gotts » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:04 PM UTC

Good for CSS-Tricks team but Why does DigitalOcean need it in the first place?

Is it some kind of purchase of real estate for future permanent advertisement of DO?

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by smashah » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:06 PM UTC

Congrats!

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by ramesh31 » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

azemetre wrote: post #6

bilekas wrote: post #4

Does seem a bit of a strange fit for DigitalOcean. That said, they seem like a solid company and they really do have some really good tutorials/knowledgebase. Sounds like a good time to sell it off though and hope they have the same success with future projects.

Not that strange. DigitalOcean has (or had?) a great forum for asking tech questions on setting up droplets and other DO services. It was very community driven. I relied on it often when I first made my VPS back in 2013.

Yeah their docs have always been top notch. Couldn't have found a better home IMO.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

bilekas wrote: post #4

Does seem a bit of a strange fit for DigitalOcean. That said, they seem like a solid company and they really do have some really good tutorials/knowledgebase. Sounds like a good time to sell it off though and hope they have the same success with future projects.

They did buy launchaco, maybe their move is "build your stuff and host it on our stuff"