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Here are some of my notes: - It's hard to get a community going, and many of the sites what used SE couldn't do it. - Joel says charging was an impediment. -

Here are some of my notes: - It's hard to get a community going, and many of the sites what used SE couldn't do it. - Joel says charging was an impediment. - Building on someone else's platform is like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. Businesses that were built on SE will have to find a new platform (meta.stackexchange.com has some good threads on that.) - Joel raised money, but isn't ready to announce from whom or how much. - Only 20-40 SE sites had any significant traffic.

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frou_dh 17y ago
Wow, timely reporting! Thank you.
- sparky 17y ago
  It helps that they sent out a forewarning email to all SX site owners telling them about the impending change; Andrew has an SX site. Still a great effort on Andrew's part to pull it together, thanks!
dabent 17y ago
I think the reason SO first took off was the same reason HN took off -- a person who was famous in the community the site was based on started it. Without some kind of catalyst, I'm not sure if I know a way to get a site like that going.
patio11 17y ago
Building on someone else's platform is like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. I largely agree with this, and it is one of the reasons I don't do iDevice development, but I despair about changing it. We're all ultimately on someone else's platform these days: even those of us on the wild free Internet are, essentially, at the mercy of Google.
- runevault 17y ago
  This is true but at least there are mild forms of other discoverability forming between facebook, twitter, etc due to link sharing/grassroots/etc. Still have to get those early users but there are ways to do it, the going is just a hundred billion times slower. The difference is platforms like iPhone or even Facebook (pretty sure, I don't use that devilspawn site) is they can cut you off entirely if you tie yourself to them entirely.

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frou_dh 17y ago

Wow, timely reporting! Thank you.

sparky 17y ago
It helps that they sent out a forewarning email to all SX site owners telling them about the impending change; Andrew has an SX site. Still a great effort on Andrew's part to pull it together, thanks!

dabent 17y ago

I think the reason SO first took off was the same reason HN took off -- a person who was famous in the community the site was based on started it. Without some kind of catalyst, I'm not sure if I know a way to get a site like that going.

patio11 17y ago

Building on someone else's platform is like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. I largely agree with this, and it is one of the reasons I don't do iDevice development, but I despair about changing it. We're all ultimately on someone else's platform these days: even those of us on the wild free Internet are, essentially, at the mercy of Google.

runevault 17y ago
This is true but at least there are mild forms of other discoverability forming between facebook, twitter, etc due to link sharing/grassroots/etc. Still have to get those early users but there are ways to do it, the going is just a hundred billion times slower. The difference is platforms like iPhone or even Facebook (pretty sure, I don't use that devilspawn site) is they can cut you off entirely if you tie yourself to them entirely.