There was always the possibility of some sort of aggregator/other front end sitting on top of the SO data. We just didn't know exactly what a successful one wo

There was always the possibility of some sort of aggregator/other front end sitting on top of the SO data. We just didn't know exactly what a successful one would look like until relatively recently. I always limited how much I contributed based on that as likely outcome. Discontinuing the data dump is a much bigger deal to me and completely changes the value proposition of their various sites.