Re:DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
by vohu43 on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @04:42PM
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Did the quality of the content on scotch.io change? Can we expect the same thing for CSS-tricks?
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scotch's traffic has been in sharp decline since the acquisition https://www.similarweb.com/website/scotch.io/#overview
i'm not really sure what they bought to be honest
I'm pretty sure the content stopped in mid 2020, so a year or so after the sale.
And then eventually was redirected to DigitalOcean.
Also, just to add my own thought to this - CSS-Tricks is of course very loved by people who learned things there, and people who respect Chris Coyer as a designer. But, these acquisitions do have an effect on how people perceive a project, and skepticism is very high on that list.
They seem to be keeping the "Write for Us" option open, with 300$+ a pop per guest post + promotion to your project. If anything, it will become a haven for those kind of posts. If not, they might by some miracle find a really good person (dev or designer) who is willing to take on the reigns for a while. Unlikely, though.