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

725686

Pretty bad timing, I would say.

rowbin

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

fdgwhite

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

DivingForGold

why post an article from 5 years ago ?

dpark

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.

try-working

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