| > The question seems to be when Stack Overflow will wind down operations, or the owner sells the site for comparative pennies, not if it will happen. I see the latter option, but the former? SO, at least judging by their hardware posts, was running on nine servers two years ago [1]. That's barely anything in costs - electricity, uplink and occasional rotation of the hardware, but probably a single person working a decent job can afford to run the entire hardware for the site. Truly shows how far a tight budget can go when you don't waste untold amounts of money and energy on layers upon layers of complexity. > I'm sure we'll see spaces where developers hang out and help each other continue to be popular – whether they are in the form of Discord servers, WhatsApp or Telegram groups, or something else. Yeah fuuuuck that. It's so annoying that everyone and their dog moved to these walled gardens. Google can't pierce them, unlike IRC of ye olde days where it was common to let a bouncer publish logs, WA/Telegram come with privacy risks and Discord is a hellscape. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34950843 |