Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by bhandziuk on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:33PM (#27372997)

I like their approximate people reached metric. I've answered at lot of VBA questions which get a lot of views but not necessarily from developers who might have an account. I suspect they are mostly anonymous users and thus the answers get a lot of views but relatively few votes.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by caf on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:48PM (#27374412)

I've looked at the 'people reached' metric and wondered: does this mean that, objectively speaking, the greatest impact I'll have on the world will turn out to have been a few stackoverflow answers?

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by owl57 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @09:42PM (#27376248)

Also, if these answers contained any code, it might end up the most used code you've ever written.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by caf on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @10:17PM (#27376505)

Out of curiosity I've done code searches on identifying substrings and found code from my stackoverflow answers all over the place, though of course the hits tend to be in that long tail of seldom used code out there. Pretty sure my most used code would be in deliberate open source contributions.

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