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Re:The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over by mgiannopoulos on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:22AM (#14231630)
Quota seems to be going well, just raised funding at a 1.8$ billion valuation and with now "190 million monthly users, up from 100 million a year ago" https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/
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Re:The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over by 0xcde4c3db on Sunday April 30, 2017 @10:59AM (#14231831)
They don't seem to say what they're counting as "monthly users". I wonder how many of that 190 million are people who skim one page from a Google search and then flee when the site tries to get them to register to read anything else.
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Re:The end of Academia.edu: How business takes over by mgiannopoulos on Sunday April 30, 2017 @11:28AM (#14231987)
I don't know but lately I keep getting mails from Quora that a new Facebook friend has joined the site and I should be his friend on Quora as well. It could be that they keep getting people to sign although with unknown amount of actual use.
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