[HN Gopher] Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
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Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs
Author : rendaw
Score : 20 points
Date : 2024-05-06 05:55 UTC (17 hours ago)
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| gklitz wrote:
| I love the angle of them realizing that they had a hit with the
| users, even if the financial side wasn't a hit, and working to
| bring that back even if that means bringing in a partner in to
| make it work. This is how I wish Google would go about things
| instead of just straight up murdering projects even if they do
| make money because they need to move talent bigger cash cows.
| shkkmo wrote:
| I fail to see what was "brought back". This just looks like
| indeed ads on SO.
| infecto wrote:
| I am not so sure. SO I imagine is at a intersection to decide
| their future. SO is probably the least relevant it has ever
| been in its history, there is a potential crisis with LLM
| taking the role of what traditionally happened on SO. I imagine
| the core user on SO does not want an indeed experience, the
| whole joy with SO careers/jobs was that it was purely part of
| the SO ecosystem. I also cannot imagine a worse partner in this
| space from an IT/Developer experience. Perhaps this is a pivot
| to try and figure out the future of the company.
|
| I don't remember the deal details but I cannot image SO is
| worth today what Prosus paid for it during the acquisition.
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| Yeah, I don't have much faith in them at this point. They had
| a hit that devs loved with StackOverflow jobs, and axed it
| during the talent crunch, presumably to focus on their core
| product (Q&A), but possibly also because most companies were
| struggling to hire and SO jobs likely made it harder for them
| to hire, and possibly retain staff.
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| Now talent is plentiful, and Q&A is less relevant than ever,
| so they're hoping to excite users by bringing back a "fan
| favourite".
|
| But it's like if your ex dumps you for someone else then
| tries to get you to take them back when that inevitably
| doesn't work out. It's not the same.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Getting rid of SO Jobs was always lunacy.
|
| I hope they got rid of the CEO who did that.
| langsoul-com wrote:
| Why? They said it was not financially sustainable. So the ceo
| pulled the plug on a feature that loss money without an easy
| possibility of profits.
| boltzmann-brain wrote:
| sometimes, features don't have to justify their existence
| with "line goes up".
|
| fuel is a net negative in a car, you keep spending and
| spending on it and it does not provide "more car" to you,
| does that mean you shouldn't be buying fuel?
|
| SO jobs might have been the _one_ thing that keeps SO
| relevant during the time while we 're collectively figuring
| out that LLMs are just a grift.
|
| but not this repackaged indeed.
| manquer wrote:
| Sum of individual features is not greater than the whole
| product .
|
| The community is what makes SO valuable (to investors), so it
| makes sense to keep things the community values most :q/ a
| Database and jobs
| langsoul-com wrote:
| So they partnered with indeed now, I wonder how this would really
| be different than just using indeed.
| manquer wrote:
| Ads will likely show in SO answers , SO will get paid much
| better click rate than google ads gives them .
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| How will it be different for us users ? More ads which are
| pseudo first party .
| thrill wrote:
| So, we're supposed to get excited about Indeed jobs with a
| StackOverflow skin?
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