Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
Community people are in the layoff list so far.
As opposed to who? They've already terminated all of their previously valuable community members, going on a year now right?
They had a lot of bloat, it'll take a lot of layoffs to pair it down. But the community was mostly untouched before. Not completely, but mostly.
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@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
I expect that to stop. ZD has loads to lose by looking unprofessional. They aren't the small time, SMB focused wild west. Big corporate publishing has very different ways of handling things.
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@scottalanmiller Maybe ZD is buying SpiteWorks to close SpiteWorks forever?
Hopes and prayers
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One thing that is going to be a problem for the community now, is that the parent company J2 Global owns products like eFax, MyFax, FuseMail, Vipre AV, SugarSync, etc. Those are all potential customers of SW and will be a conflict of interest with other advertisers.
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SW will now be a peer with some of these businesses:
IGN
Mashable
PC Magazine
Askmen.com
Geek.com
Humble Bundle
Excel Micro
Vipre
SMTP, Inc. -
@scottalanmiller They'll just have to stop advertising on SpiteWorks from a green account and instead have un-sponsored ads/banners.
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Their new parent company has a profile on SW:
https://community.spiceworks.com/service-providers/60628-j2-global-inc
They claim to be an MSP.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
Their new parent company has a profile on SW:
https://community.spiceworks.com/service-providers/60628-j2-global-inc
They claim to be an MSP.
They also have zero activity of any sort on that profile.
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And that j2 profile points to https://community.spiceworks.com/people/adamnadeau
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Someone should login to spiteworks and see if they'll be reinstating the accounts that were axed because of the tantrum of SpiteWorks management.
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
Someone should login to spiteworks and see if they'll be reinstating the accounts that were axed because of the tantrum of SpiteWorks management.
There is no reasonable change that someone has divulged that to J2 Global.
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In this post about SW's viability: Jay mentioned hiring the new community managers as examples of how the platform was viable. Does laying them off imply something? They've delinked both accounts at this point.
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Might be the right time to add in this thought, too:
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
I am still part on that community. It would be crazy if they axed a lot of the contributors at once.
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@dbeato said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
I am still part on that community. It would be crazy if they axed a lot of the contributors at once.
Or really, any. ZD has nothing to win from that, if anything it would be the time to bring old ones back.
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@scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@dbeato said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
I am still part on that community. It would be crazy if they axed a lot of the contributors at once.
Or really, any. ZD has nothing to win from that, if anything it would be the time to bring old ones back.
That is what I said here
@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
Someone should login to spiteworks and see if they'll be reinstating the accounts that were axed because of the tantrum of SpiteWorks management.
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@dbeato said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
@scottalanmiller I was referring to their "we're axing everyone who is a member of any other tech community"
I am still part on that community. It would be crazy if they axed a lot of the contributors at once.
Or really, any. ZD has nothing to win from that, if anything it would be the time to bring old ones back.
That is what I said here
@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
Someone should login to spiteworks and see if they'll be reinstating the accounts that were axed because of the tantrum of SpiteWorks management.
Wait, you mean the <string of expletives omitted> that used to swing the banhammer freely might be gone soon? As in, my account might get to come back from the permanent time-out corner it was placed in so many years ago now??? I'll believe it when I see it.
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@RojoLoco When you've got a little pecker and a little authority, you tend to abuse both.
So who knows, maybe? It would be in ZD's benefit.
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@DustinB3403 said in Spiceworks Just Got Acquired by Publisher Ziff-Davis:
So who knows, maybe? It would be in ZD's benefit.
It would be, they have a moment here where they could step in and reverse a lot of historic ill will if they so choose. Or they can maintain it. This is their time to make that decision and pick the direction that they want to take the community. As a new owner, they have a chance to not be tied to any previous decisions. But choosing to maintain those decisions would change that if they go that direction.
