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FS tells me that Ars Technica reports that Dice is selling the Slashdot and Sourceforge sites. The company in their second quarter earnings announcements stated they have "not successfully leveraged the Slashdot user base to further Dice's digital recruitment business", and are planning to divest this business.
The report goes on to note that in spite of what the report calls "an incredibly loyal and passionate following of tech professionals," Slashdot and SourceForge aren't core to DHI's business and that DHI has partnered with KeyBanc Capital Markets to advise DHI on the sale. There is no buyer lined up yet.
The report also says that Slashdot Media (the aggregate of Slashdot and SourceForge) made $1.7 million in revenue for the second quarter and that it's estimated Slashdot Media will pull somewhere between $15 million and $16 million in revenue for fiscal 2015.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Tuesday July 28 2015, @06:16PM
No place else I'm aware of has managed to achieve that success in community building from such a diverse array of people.
Absolutely. The Slashdot community changed my mind and built my thoughts on a lot of things. Sometimes I did feel like I was seeing groupthink, but there was still enough variety that there were dissenters to any "mainstream" Slashdot opinion. I'm proud to be a vital part of the mix myself in being a dissenter (hopefully respectfully) on a number of things myself.
What I liked about it was that no matter how obscure the subject matter, the community was large enough and diverse enough that you would eventually get beyond the trolls and the usual spouting of uninformed opinions and someone who worked in the field and genuinely knew what they were talking about would post something informative about the topic.