Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov...
by patio-chill on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @02:51PM
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They have def given up their regular users in this point. Ads thing shared here is one item recently. Also think they can re license my content without asking (below): https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...
Plenty of other stuff in past year or two...
(below): I shared it but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053475
I imagine that many companies experience a sort of death spiral once they start focusing too much on profit/growth/monetization at the expense of actually catering to their users' needs.
On the other extreme, focusing too much on users and not enough on profit probably isn't a good way to remain in business for long...