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11:08 PM

@JeremyBanks OTOH I'm kinda doubtful they'd run things the same way.SO had some stuff that never would happen with big corporate overlords

Pretty sure they would kill off, say SE 2.0 or at least the non device sited

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek They would definitely be a big change in some ways, but I don't think "continue things as they have been, forever" is an available choice.

Anonymous

I don't think it's inevitable that they'd kill off the 2.0 network, but it is a concern.

Anonymous

Hopefully the company could make the argument that the network doesn't cost much to maintain and makes Stack Overflow better.

Catija

As someone who doesn't use any of the tech sites at all... I think I'll just say that I'd rather they not.

Anonymous

shrug

Anonymous

11:24 PM

I think the wider network has inherent value but I think it's complicated to make a business case for that directly, and if Stack did it would probably tempt the new owners to mess with it. Saying "oh it helps foster community on Stack Overflow, just let is tend to it" might be the safest choice for The Network in the case of an acquisition.

Anonymous

Obviously the best-case-outcome is "open-source community-driven community-funded fork of the entire network", but I think that's a lot less likely to happen successfully than an acquisition.

Journeyman Geek

@JeremyBanks eh,Foss probably will not happen.

Catija

Considering that Enterprise is a source of income, I have a difficult time believing that open source would be an option?

Anonymous

Pardon; I meant an open-source clone of the necessary parts of the software, but a fork of the data.

Anonymous

Not from the company itself.

Journeyman Geek

11:34 PM

SE's next great hope is software as a service

Catija

As far as I'm concerned, forks are for eating ;)

Anonymous

I said "best-case", but "a lot less likely". :P

Anonymous

@JourneymanGeek Yes, and maybe that will work. I hope it does. But if it doesn't...

Journeyman Geek

@JeremyBanks there's dozens of those. Problem is but building communities to generate more data.

Anonymous

Yes. The only way that would succeed is if a significant fraction of Stack contributors were committed before it launched.

Anonymous

11:36 PM

Like an Area 51-style system, but at a larger scale.

Journeyman Geek

It's been tried? One or two SE 1.0 sites moved and someone tried to clone startups.

Anonymous

Imagine Comcast acquires Stack Exchange tomorrow.

Anonymous

Maybe that's the kind of situation where the community and supporters could get enough focus and energy to actually make it work. :P

Journeyman Geek

Or oath

user202362

makes more sense if amazon acquires stack exchange

Journeyman Geek

11:45 PM

On the other hand how many places can you think of where something like SE could spawn on its own?

user202362

I thought that amazon could not sell programmers, I was wrong

Anonymous

urgggg. Amazon would make some sense.

user202362

amazon could sell things to programmers

Journeyman Geek

Maybe old Google

Anonymous

Not many places.

Catija

11:46 PM

Comcast is evil. I think if they bought SE I'd quit.

Shog9

I've seen that sort of "mass migration" work before. Arguably, that's how Stack Overflow started - a bunch of folks from sites like Code Project, Experts Exchange, MSDN Forums, etc. all found their way here in the early days and brought a lot of knowledge with them.

Of course, even with that it took a while for SO to be useful. An awful lot of sites attempt to do that sort of thing and die on the vine before they ever get a critical mass.

It works best when the old place completely drops the ball

Anonymous

I moved from Digg to Reddit during the HD-DVD key censorship scandal, where they alienated much of their community at once.

Shog9

Ah, Digg... There are some great stories around how not to do community-building attached to that site.

user202362

I wonder what's the life cycle/span of a chat program/social network

user202362

I specifically refers to the like of snapchat/facebook

user202362

11:55 PM

a bit cynical about those things could stay around for a long time

user202362

they are different to microsoft or apple, because people actually need computers

user315433

> Are you comfortable with PowerShell, Azure (or AWS or Google Cloud), and love operations? Stack Overflow, Inc. is looking for an SRE to help us grow the Microsoft Azure side of our infrastructure. Work remote or in NYC! Details: stackoverflow.com/company/work-here/1031847 … -- Thomas Limoncelli 5k at 1:10 PM - 12 Feb 2018

user315433

Growing Azure... long-time SRE leaves... coincidence?

user315433

A more cryptic tweet:

user315433

> @kjbeavers You may be pleased to know that as of 5 minutes ago, Stacks is on all Q&A sites. It's your legacy, too :) -- Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe at 12:06 PM - 12 Feb 2018

user315433

11:58 PM

Stacks is on all of stacks?