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Testing a new version of Stack Overflow Jobs

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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.

I fail to see what was "brought back". This just looks like indeed ads on SO.

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.

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.

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.

So, we're supposed to get excited about Indeed jobs with a StackOverflow skin?

Getting rid of SO Jobs was always lunacy.

I hope they got rid of the CEO who did that.

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.

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.

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

So they partnered with indeed now, I wonder how this would really be different than just using indeed.

Ads will likely show in SO answers , SO will get paid much better click rate than google ads gives them .

How will it be different for us users ? More ads which are pseudo first party .

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