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Jon Quixote
Personal blog · jlericson.com · on HN as jlericsonculturecareer
Jon Quixote's personal blog at jlericson.com covers culture and career. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “I Left Stack Overflow”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jon Ericson's posts analysing Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow business decisions, such as the cancelled Talent job board. One commenter calls his writing more informative than other coverage of the decline.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
In which the author considers whether a community is more like a giant or more like a windmill.
Most-linked posts?
- I Left Stack Overflow2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-17
What Hacker News says?
I mean fine, write an article that overweights recent events to weave a tale of the decline of Stack Exchange...but don't leave out the moderator strike, the data dump fiasco, or the CEO that simply doesn't get it. Jon Ericson's writing on the issue is much more informative. https://jlericson.com/
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on “Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange”Submitted How's the Stack Overflow strike going? as a story · 14 points
HN discussion>I will never understand why SO canceled 'Talent', their job board. From a related article: https://jlericson.com/2021/04/27/reading_tealeaves.html "But since it was finally canceled well after the acquisition, I suspect it was no longer growing and, perhaps, unprofitable. I don't get the feeling that the new CEO was interested in this line of business and it could be that Talent was starved of resources until it wa…
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on “How's Business at Stack Overflow?”Submitted Why I Left Stack Overflow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is a perfect case study showing how it literally doesn't matter what your business is or what kind of community you've built, or operating practices you've developed; if the company has sold itself to investors, and investors decide "we want our exit" the company will turn into whatever it has to in order to "give investors their exit" and "return capital." Lets look at an article that talks about how they got…
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on “How's Business at Stack Overflow?”Submitted I Left Stack Overflow as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Left Stack Overflow as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Stack Overflow is telling employees about the strike as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Exchange Moderator Strike as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Overfocus on Implicit Bias as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Overflow laying off more community managers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I'm signing the Stack Overflow strike letter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ChatGPT can code: How terrifying is this development? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How's Business at Stack Overflow? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a community platform: Stack Overflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why badges were changed on Stack Overflow (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Overflow's strike is over: But its problems persist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI is a problem on Stack Overflow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the Stack Overflow Data Dump Was at Risk as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Glassdoor review of Stack Overflow: Management feudalism means YMMV as a story · 1 points
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