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Dice Selling Slashdot and Sourceforge

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 28 2015, @02:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-the-cheering-commence! dept.

iwoloschin and an Anonymous Coward write:

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @07:20PM (#215007)

    Indeed, they've damaged the reputation of both sites, probably beyond repair. ie: Even if Dice is removed from the picture, the staff at both sites have proven that they have no problem acting against the best intentions of the community it has (or had.)

    Essentially, they'll basically do whatever the new owners expect, which can easily be the same or worse than the things Dice was making it do. (steamrolling the new beta slashdot interface out despite constant objection and criticism from the community, and all that adware bundling crap being deceptively added to software downloads on sourceforge - and the stealing of projects from their owners under the excuse that it was "abandoned" (when more accurately it was to prevent the owners who had indeed abandoned sourceforge for other hosting alternatives from returning to remove the project officially)

  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:00PM (#215075)

    Yes, it is awful when the staff of a company has to do what the owner of the company wants. They should be able to do whatever they want!!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:24PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @10:24PM (#215084)

      socialism ftw!