Timeline for Prosus' acquisition and its effect on MathOverflow
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| Jun 11, 2021 at 11:47 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
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| Jun 8, 2021 at 8:40 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @Martin this is the sort of secret hack that only lessens the friction an epsilon. I had never heard of this trick before, and just stopped relying on Quora. | |
| Jun 8, 2021 at 4:31 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak |
@DavidRoberts Based on what I read here, it seems that adding share=1 to the URL should be enough to see a post on Quora without the need of an account. (I have tried a bit in incognito mode, it seems to be working.) In any case, this is just tangential here - but since Quora was mentioned, I thought this was worth pointing out.
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 9:18 | vote | accept | vidyarthi | ||
| Jun 7, 2021 at 5:43 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I think doing something like free but mandatory sign-up to see more than a limited number of questions is super annoying, and I don't think out of the realm of possibility. Sites like Quora, Pinterest do this, and for instance Reddit on mobile wants people to even install the app and then sign up. Some newspapers for instance want you to make a free account to read them. This seems like the kind of move that is a) site-wide and b) not against the terms of the MO-Stackexchange agreement and c) from what I've seen of mathematicians here, wouldn't be well-received among our users/potential users. | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 5:06 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @DavidRoberts I'm pretty sure nothing covers "every eventuality" but is there one eventuality you are concerned about? | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 21:46 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @FrançoisG.Dorais sure, but I don't think that covers every eventuality. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 21:44 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @მამუკაჯიბლაძე The company as a whole is called StackOverflow, even though it should properly refer to SE, not just the one sub-site. It's to do with brand recognition, since that's the original and most popular site. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 20:09 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | I don't understand. They bought SO, not the whole SE network? Or what? | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 15:19 | comment | added | François G. Dorais Mod | @DavidRoberts: The agreement maintains its legal significance. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 15:17 | answer | added | François G. DoraisMod | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 0:54 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | I guess the question is: will the arrangement be SE and MO remain unchanged? Are there any unwritten conventions for how MO works as a "special member" of the SE network that might be overridden as a side-effect of the new owners making big decisions around eg monetising content/process/user data, or adding a sign-up to read or post answers? | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 0:25 | comment | added | Noah Snyder | There's a similar question over at meta.SE which probably has better informed answers by former SE employees than anything we can give here. Of course it may effect MO in different ways than the rest of the network, but given our lack of knowledge there's not much we can say that's MO specific (and very little we can say at any level of generality). | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 21:25 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | I would expect any effect to be a higher order effect, the first order effects being for the paid offerings of StackOverflow, which MO is not. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 21:10 | history | edited | vidyarthi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2021 at 18:47 | history | asked | vidyarthi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |