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Going... going.... going.... gone!!

Stackoverflow is sold, now to sit back and await the profiteering that's bound to happen.

I quote:

Prosus has built a significant presence on the enterprise side with a focus on the future of workplace learning. Prosus will reach 90% of the Fortune 100 across its corporate learning companies including Stack Overflow, Skillsoft, Udemy and Codecademy.

https://prosus.com/news/...

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stackoverflow

show me the money

1.8 billion dollars

prosus

sold
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  • 8
    4y
    They put emphasis on pushing Stack Overflow for Teams.
  • 6
    4y
    Prosus...
  • 23
    4y
    It's "Pro", but "sus" is the most important part.
  • 16
    4y
    Is this going to resolve now?
  • 5
    4y
    I once knew a pro who was a bit sus 🤔
  • 3
    4y
    @Eklavya hope so
  • 5
    4y
    @molaram probably this indeed.
  • 4
    4y
    Whatever happened to distributed computing and redundency...on the business side of things
  • 6
    4y
    Discussion on hacker news where I found about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item/...
  • 4
    4y
    @molaram You are, without a doubt, 100% correct
  • 2
    4y
    @molaram Probably, another "free" platform will emerge then.
  • 4
    4y
    The Stackoverflow sites where really helpful for finding answers to questions in all sorts of fields.
    I will miss it.
  • 3
    4y
    @vintprox hiding everything in enterprise team collab areas will reduce from SO in general though.

    @Eklavya nah, next up I see some kind of useless subscription or micro transaction.

    You have ran out of free copy's for the week, upgrade to a premium subscription to unlock upto 100 copy's each week.
  • 6
    4y
    I love the "no changes in the coming weeks or months" comment by the CEO. It's pure gold, basically admitting that they'll fuck shit up, just not yet.
    Aight boys, how can we maximize our profit synergies for Q3?
    I wonder how long it'll take for it to become experts exchange and for some other platform to take its place.
  • 3
    4y
    @Eklavya Hey I just checked I still got banned.
  • 4
    4y
    Oh great, now I'm actually going to have to keep information in my brain instead of stack overflow
  • 2
    4y
    Everything good is temporary
  • 0
    4y
    There'll be less people asking and answering questions, so the fact that it's for-pay will make it less valuable. Eventually the answers will be outdated, so either the companies that pay for this will get filled with legacy code or no one will want to visit anymore and they'll close thr site. What a tragedy.
  • 0
    4y
    Prosus is Naspers. They have always had a big chunk of the internet silently.
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