Stack Overflow has been trying VERY aggressively to monetize the site lately. In just the past 12 months: - They’ve backpedaled on their formerly strict ad pol

Stack Overflow has been trying VERY aggressively to monetize the site lately. In just the past 12 months: - They’ve backpedaled on their formerly strict ad policy, now allowing animated ads [0] and trackers [1], and their quality control has become very poor [2]. - They changed the homepage to market their new SaaS product instead of the Q&A site [3] - They replaced their CEO (who was a cofounder) with a new one who they described as “ someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterprise software company very quickly” [4] - They fired and defamed a well-liked and well-respected volunteer moderator without cause, in a misguided attempt at virtue signaling, and refused to make any attempt to rectify their mistakes until the moderator in question got a lawyer [5] - They fired/laid off two longtime and very well-respected Community Managers (employees whose job was to manage and work alongside with community) [6] [0]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/213770/258777 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/213770/258777 [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/332297/258777 https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/332297/258777 [2]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=“Inappropriate+ad”+is%3Aq&tab=newest https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=“Inappropriate+ad”+i... [3]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386505/3476191 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/386505/3476191 [4]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overflows-new-ceo-prashanth-chandrasekar/ https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/24/announcing-stack-overf... [5]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/258777 https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/333965/258777 [6]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/342039/258777 https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/342039/258777