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Wow, it already did not work??? It seems it was only yesterday that Joel announced he would be raising money for it. Internet time is fast indeed.
by hristov 17y ago
Wow, it already did not work??? It seems it was only yesterday that Joel announced he would be raising money for it. Internet time is fast indeed.
- stevejohnson 17y agoThe money raised is being used to support the new business model, which is described on another frontpaged article. The new business model was in response to the failure described here.
- chrisboesing 17y agoJoel and Jeff wanted to raise money for StackOverflow, not for StackExchange. But maybe the VCs couldn't see the value in having three site and licensing the software to another company(Fog Creek), so the obvious way was to fold StackExchange into the StackOverflow company. I think only time will tell if this was the right decision.
- rgoddard 17y agoNo. They successfully raised money for StackExchange. That is part of the reason for the change. Here is the post from the blog explaining the change. http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-2-0 http://blog.stackexchange.com/post/518474918/stack-exchange-...
- chrisboesing 17y agoI meant, that the VCs didn't gave them the money for the old style of StackExchange sites. Before this change the StackExchange plattform was licensed from StackOverflow and operated by Fog Creek. I guess the questions that now comes up is: Did they make the change because they raised money and are now able to do this, or have they changed it because this was the only way to raise money?