Timeline for Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story
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| May 5, 2023 at 13:36 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading [<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/short-sighted#Adjective>].
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| Feb 5, 2022 at 10:27 | comment | added | Ellie Kesselman | One could call the Developer Story a 'loss leader', @Cerbrus A loss leader doesn't make much money for a company and it might even run at a small steady loss. It is worth keeping though, due to synergistic effects without which profitable parts of the company would be subject to much less growth, revenue, profit, whatever. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 18:04 | comment | added | Travis J | That's fair, but I don't always have time to rehash half a decades worth of history in a post unfortunately, and perhaps I just assume too much common knowledge about some of the topics here. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:31 | comment | added | Cerbrus | Travis, that is a lot of background information that's pretty crucial to this answer, which isn't exactly public/common knowledge. I've never ever heard of that YouTube channel, nor are we privy to whatever you discussed with those people. That's what my comment was about. This answer makes some claims... Correct or not, there's no information in it to back it up. TL;DR: Please cite your sources :D | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | Travis J | The problem was that it didn't have the growth potential that other features had, and as a result they are shuttering it, even though it was so widely used that for a long time it was the primary source of revenue. I have had extensive conversations about this with Shog, Jon, Blufeet, and Jaydles about this over several years, and about revenue in general at Stack Overflow since 2017 or so. Unfortunately most of the people who actually know how this place works are gone, and there is a growing group of people now getting used to a new normal where a "community run environment" is a pipe dream. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | Travis J | @Cerbrus A whole heck of a lot, and if you are curious about this conversation you may want to do some research before just wading in full force. Start here: youtube.com/watch?v=zMfxd9y0cMY, and since you interested let's just cliff notes some highlights. $70M revenue: $44M Jobs, $16M Ads, $10M Teams. This was from April 2019 so it is a little dated, but still, it hasn't been all that long; clearly teams has grown since then. That said, it is clear that Jobs was a strong source of revenue, regardless of how necessarily profitable it was, it was a large source of user engagement. | |
| Jan 31, 2022 at 8:33 | comment | added | Cerbrus | "Financial decisions being made at this company are atrocious as they consistently miss the forest for the trees." What do you know about the financials involved in this decision? You're calling this shortsighted based on... What? Your perception of use of Jobs? | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 19:37 | history | answered | Travis J | CC BY-SA 4.0 |