alt Hacker NewsThe author labels COVID and the launch of ChatGPT on the graph, but fails to mention that Stack Overflow was acquired in June 2021 by Prosus, a Dutch private equity firm. That looks to me like it matches pretty well with the entire downward trend.
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andomar • yesterday at 6:52 PM
A firm is sold when its owners believe they will get the best price. The selling itself is more of a symptom than a cause.
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IshKebab • yesterday at 7:29 PM
I don't think so. StackOverflow itself didn't really change for any of that period. Any changes in users must have been due to external factors.
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> Stack Overflow was acquired in June 2021 by Prosus, a Dutch private equity firm.,
That is great to hear. I am glad that the original creators of StackOverflow got their liquidity event and are well off financially I suspect.