Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by fleddr on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:47PM (#27374407)

Well said. Especially during the early years, I always found the signal/noise ratio of SO to be head and shoulders above anything on the web.

In part, due to a lot of their subtle UI and reputation choices. Really well designed.

Massive scale may at one point break that, but another cause may be found in the change of tone by the team behind SO. They're on the "inclusive" train now.

Don't get me wrong, being inclusive is good, but there's a difference between somebody being a beginner or not proficient in English, and somebody being plain lazy.

This "softening" I do not consider a good development. I prefer the tough love approach that weeds out garbage from good stuff. If that mechanism is compromised, its unique value is lost.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by stjohnswarts on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:10PM (#27374665)

This is why I keep going back. I'm afraid it will get worse with this but it may be just entropy of existence as a web service. It's inevitably doomed to mediocrity and replacement by a new hotness.

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