Dice Holdings Trading down on Disappointing Earnings

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Dice Holdings, the company that now owns Slashdot and runs specialty job boards, seems to have hit a rough patch. An article from earlier this month reports Dice Holdings is trading down by 4.1% due to disappointing earnings. Yahoo's stock charts don't make it look like the situation is too bad, but look to Dice's CEO for guidance and you'll be surprised. Turns out Scott Melland is feeling bearish and recently sold over $500,000 in Dice stock. Here is the transcript of the earnings call, in which they unleash the bad news about Dice earnings.

Personally, I recommend they plaster Slashdot with more obnoxious banner ads .
Reply 5 comments

Dice (Score: 2, Insightful)

by nightsky30@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 12:11 (#1ND)

They are determined to be the death of a once great, nerdy news site.

Re: Dice (Score: 3, Interesting)

by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 13:57 (#1NP)

Eh, They will be the ultimate death of it. But, I think the real death of the site happened when they didn't modernize slashcode in the way that pipedot has. Although, I understand its vastly easier to start from scratch with a small userbase, than it is to transition from the slashdot userbase. Trolls used to be cute, and the whole anonymous posting culture is very cool, but they lost a lot of readership by allowing the obvious offensive trolls through.

wishful thinking maybe (Score: 3, Insightful)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 12:27 (#1NF)

Hard to see how Dice's stock price is not just oscillating about an average over the past six months to a year or so. Slashdot seems to have recovered much of its comment volume from immediately after the beta boycott, although it may be down by historical levels. And, Dice just had a recent study get lots of news coverage about the lengthening time it is taking to fill various skilled tech jobs.

Maybe the CEO from Dice just wanted to buy a new house or boat?

Re: wishful thinking maybe (Score: 5, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-16 14:00 (#1NQ)

Good comments. Yes, I'm noticing 100+ comments on some articles - an order of magnitude better than Soy and two orders of magnitude better than Pipe. But a heck of a lot of those comments are garbage, almost at the Reddit level of tomfoolery. Long gone are the days when it was a bastion of tough, knowledgeable nerds. They're still in there, but the signal to noise ratio has dropped.

Also, the new banner ads, like the one at the bottom that actually obscures the text, are unforgiveable and truly obnoxious. They're going to look like LinuxToday before too long, and LT is currently, totally unuseable it's been so stuffed with horsecrap on the front page. The content is like an afterthought, a little texty buffer zone that keeps the ad-choked sidebars from collapsing into each other under their own weight.

Damn slashdot (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-17 23:33 (#1PN)

Lucky to have an ad blocker on my own machine, but when I try accessing the site on my mobile, the floating ads on the site make it impossible to read just by taking up screen space, and occasionally cause the whole page the flicker as the ad updates every 2 seconds for some reason.

Add to that that they are now /deleting/ some comments on /.... (personal experience).

I still go there right before SoylentNews or Pipedot, but 2/3 of the time there's some shit like this making me absolutely fed-up with a site that used to be my favourite on the '.net. Geez. Never again.