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Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021)
- 725686 4mo agoPretty bad timing, I would say.
- VerifiedReports 4mo agoYep. Enjoy your toxic, obsolete echo chamber!
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 4mo agofor the buyer, yes. it's worthless now.
- rowbin 4mo agoThat sounds like a pretty good deal for stack overflow...
- codevark 4mo ago[dead]
- fdgwhite 4mo agoIt’s still 100m monthly visitors allegedly. So some value in that
- stringfood 4mo agonow 99m and dropping each day - sell fast!
- fdgwhite 4mo agoOops just realized article was from 2021
- DivingForGold 4mo agowhy post an article from 5 years ago ?
- alexandre_m 4mo agoLooking back it seems like a very bad deal.
- dpark 4mo agoIt’s interesting that they managed a 1.8 billion dollar sale when they had been on the decline for years. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/ https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-... The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.
- sohex 4mo agoWildly true. Purely anecdotal on my part, but in my experience the cooking stack exchange was just awful to even try to ask something on.
- try-working 4mo agoSO should create an MCP interface or such, to make real-world context available to agents, the stuff that's not in docs.
- dpark 4mo agoSurely all of SO has been ingested by the LLM training at this point.
- faangguyindia 4mo agoThey used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults. While it did help me at time, i saw it was hard for average Joe to contribute to it.
- znpy 4mo ago> They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults. Yeah, it was a shitshow. The thing i hated the most were mods rewriting your posts, because they didn't like the wording. Years after I am still salty and convinced it was a petty way to farm points or whatever. I'm so glad that StackOverflow is dead.
- hashmap 4mo agoIt was extremely weird to do things like that as a policy, since it was systemic and natural for a user to just post a question and not find what it might be related to. You just put in an automation to link up / coalesce questions together if they have enough similarity and that would catch most of the things they'd turn around and berate people for and completely avoid this issue by a change in structure. Or like, anything else that would have solved it.