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by vorpalhex 2446 days ago
SE does not profit from its community websites (eg the ones we all read) aside from a vague "getting traffic to its enterprise product" which is probably not worth what they spend on hosting.
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They have always had ads, and they have started serving, um, new varieties of ads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21051472
> SE does not profit from its community websites

I don’t see how it’s my problem that their business model isn’t profitable. The board & C-suite still draw a salary, and the company value is built on unpaid labour.

And now we are contributing for free to Y Combinator!

(True - there's not much direct revenue from this comment I'm typing here, but this is Hacker News, the place where the imorotantninfirmationnos and YC is in the center of it, don't you see how cool they are?)

uh HN is not the 'business' of YC. get back to work
It certainly is not the core business. But it is part of the business.
look, I get that you're not used to being called out on being hopelessly wrong. rephrasing the statement to be an empty tautology so you can be right is a waste of both of our times and only serves to protect your ego
Whoa, please don't break the site guidelines like that!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html