Timeline for We need to stop hoping for change in, or help from, SO Inc
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| Jan 20, 2020 at 9:16 | comment | added | ChrisW | I don't believe they're planning to kill the network. In this podcast Joel said they're heading for a 10× revenue growth, from 70 million (last year) to 700 million per year, and then an IPO. Revenue is from Teams, Jobs, and Ads. His model for Trello, he said, was 100 million users so it had to be broadly popular not just for developers. And that it would be free to 99% of users, that 1% of users would pay (and that would be enough), and that the 1% would be the user who were making from using it. | |
| Jan 19, 2020 at 8:47 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | @CindyMeister "I get the impression they'd be just as happy if all content moderation were stopped." I think that's a little too cynical. If they didn't care at all about that why did they just revamp the closed question notices? OTOH, I suspect that management don't realise how fragile much of the content quality actually is. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 16:34 | comment | added | Cindy Meister | ...And what comes after is not the current management's problem anymore. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 16:34 | comment | added | Cindy Meister | "But on most sites, users aren't asked to invest so much time and effort polishing content, performing moderation actions, participating in 'meta' conversations, and so on. " I'm not so sure that the current policy actually wants all that. I get the impression they'd be just as happy if all content moderation were stopped. Then all the people who want to ask can just ask, and they may or may not get an answer. But as long as there's traffice will the company care about quality? Increase traffic, decrease public outcries of elitism or whatever, sell... | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 14:36 | comment | added | terdon | And I agree with you. That is what should be. But it is not what is. And, speaking for myself, I don't know that I'm resigned to continue. I probably will be leaving soon. All I'm saying here is that for those who do want to continue, the only way I can see is to stop expecting things from SE. That way lies disappointment. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 14:34 | comment | added | Нет войне | @terdon I understand the idea of being resigned to continue despite the company's recent actions; what I'm saying is that to make it worth contributing, many people would at least want a reason to hope for the best when it comes to the future of the sites themselves. IOW even if people give up on being heard by the company, that's all the more reason they might want to hear from the company about whatever plans they have. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | terdon | Of course we deserve it, we're just not going to get it. Fairness is irrelevant, this is corporate America we're dealing with here. I contribute for the users, not for the company, so as long as users can benefit, I might continue doing so. I just don't expect the company to be helpful anymore. I have accepted that if I chose to continue here it will be despite the company. | |
| Jan 18, 2020 at 13:38 | history | answered | Нет войне | CC BY-SA 4.0 |