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Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8B (2021)

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by 725686

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by dpark

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It’s interesting that they managed a 1.8 billion dollar sale when they had been on the decline for years.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
The story of how AI ate stack overflow’s lunch is, to me, way less interesting than the story of how stack overflow managed to kill their own growth with aggressive moderation. The correlation between the sudden end of high growth and the adoption of hostile moderation is strong.

by faangguyindia

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They used to have a lot of ego, specially established mods there would delete whatever you post, mock you, and all. And then there comrades would chear and double the insults.
While it did help me at time, i saw it was hard for average Joe to contribute to it.

by fdgwhite

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by rowbin

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by try-working

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SO should create an MCP interface or such, to make real-world context available to agents, the stuff that's not in docs.

by DivingForGold

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by codevark

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