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.

It’s still 100m monthly visitors allegedly. So some value in that

Pretty bad timing, I would say.

That sounds like a pretty good deal for stack overflow...

why post an article from 5 years ago ?

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