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SE has been an incredibly well ran company. - FREE - Permissive content license - Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer - Few / limited ads - Data
by ctvo 4y ago
SE has been an incredibly well ran company.
- FREE
- Permissive content license
- Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer
- Few / limited ads
- Data available at archive.org
- Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof.
I think about LinkedIn, Github, ... the other large platforms we use for work, and SE is the only one that hasn't gone downhill.
No, I don't want them to open source the platform. No, I don't think you can do better. Yes, a few mirrors for redundancy would be excellent, but not urgent. Discoverability here would be the challenge for mirrors. They've been down less than a day total for me in 10+ years of using them.
- vdchuyen 4y ago
- jodrellblank 4y ago> "Still independently owned. Imagine AWS or Microsoft buying it. Oof." Owned by a VC firm, isn't it? https://www.forbes.com/sites/vijaygurbaxani/2021/06/08/the-18-billion-acquisition-of-stack-overflow-aims-to-turbocharge-the-worlds-software-knowhow/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/vijaygurbaxani/2021/06/08/the-1... after https://vcnewsdaily.com/stack-overflow/venture-capital-funding/hprvrwtdhx https://vcnewsdaily.com/stack-overflow/venture-capital-fundi...
- ctvo 4y agoYou're right. That makes me very sad.
- donmcronald 4y ago> Doesn't require me to log in to read an answer The cookie dialog being different on every site is infuriating if you’re not logged in.
- motbus3 4y agoI hope they are financially well because it is one of the few online things I think it works. it is only bad they are having some many outages these days. I am not complaining for me. but it means something is happening there