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2015 Jan 18, 8:49am   14,374 views  29 comments

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So with all the resent changes to Patrick.net, does this mean that the housing crash mania is over? It sure sounds like this is not intended to be a housing bear website any more.

#housing

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1   Patrick   2015 Jan 18, 9:09am  

I think nationally housing has already crashed and is not about to surge any time soon.

Also, I'm just kind of bored with the topic. Much more interested in the SF tech companies I interact with or walk past every day

2   Patrick   2015 Jan 18, 9:45am  

On hold. Decided that I have to get rich first.

3   mell   2015 Jan 18, 9:56am  

Is this something similar to glassdoor? In that case I'd suggest that people should be able to post anonymously (if they choose to do so), even if they already have a handle here on patnet. It would get more traffic and more brutal honesty. Maybe you can offer some template where you post for a specific company and select your relationship to it, similar to glassdoor (e.g. former engineer, current recruiter, HR, etc.).

4   Patrick   2015 Jan 18, 10:51am  

Yes I do plan to allow anonymous comments. Have to think about spam control.

Another idea is to give people higher permissions to edit company, event, and job info if they post using an email account with that company's domain name.

5   John Bailo   2015 Jan 18, 11:18am  

evilmonkeyboy says

housing crash mania is over

At the point people stop obsessing over housing, it means it's over (the housing bubble that is).

6   Peter P   2015 Jan 18, 11:41am  

The housing bubble is a cultural issue. Discourse on culture is not off-topic.

7   bg   2015 Jan 19, 2:12am  

It seems like it took a long time to build a housing site with 15K readers a day. It seems really weird to me that you would change that to a tech site. Why not create a different site for tech? Or why not make it a section of the old site?

I don't say this to be critical, Patrick. I am just scratching my head a little.

8   Patrick   2015 Jan 19, 6:52am  

I do have lots of plans.

The daily count is total distinct IP addresses.

9   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2015 Jan 19, 7:01am  

It's like when you go to a Cuban diner for a late breakfast. Then while you're working down your Cuban toast, and Colada before the rest of your ham and eggs come. The lady with the hairy arms starts setting up the lunchtime buffet. We see the croquetas, chicharon, moro and you just keep wondering. When is she going to bring the Lechón entero, and what else is she going to put out?

The suspense is killing us, and if we had waited another half hour we could have had the lunch instead.

10   EBGuy   2015 Jan 19, 12:04pm  

What could go wrong?
Cash rained down on startups in 2014, as venture capitalists poured a whopping $48.3 billion into new U.S. companies — levels not seen since before the dot-com bubble burst in 2001.... The worries harken back to the go-go year of 2000, when the dot-com boom drove venture funding to a peak of $105 billion. But then a wave of new Internet companies crested and collapsed, many of them failing to ever make money. Venture funding bottomed at $19.7 billion by 2003 and spent the last decade bobbing in a $20 billion to $30 billion range before making the big leap last year.

11   evilmonkeyboy   2015 Jan 19, 12:55pm  

I'm actually glad that Patrick is changing up the website. It seems that a lot of people here are not in tech and they do not live in the B.A. In fact there are just to many crazies around here spouting conspiracy theories. I think if Patrick wants to attrack techies here he will need to some how get the crazies out or limit them from making the website look like it's for people that wear aluminium foil hats.

12   Shaman   2015 Jan 19, 1:07pm  

This was always a site for gen x and Y peeps to come and bitch about how badly they were getting fucked over by the goddam housing prices/market/crash and the bad shit that evil wealthy people were doing to the economy.

None of that has changed. If anything, the fucking has gotten more savage.

Discuss.

13   SFace   2015 Jan 19, 4:49pm  


I think nationally housing has already crashed and is not about to surge any time soon.

Also, I'm just kind of bored with the topic. Much more interested in the SF tech companies I interact with or walk past every day

That's the problem with a housing bubble site, it is temporary.

The problem with SF tech companies is, it is too niche (SF tech) so 99% don't give a damn nor will there be anything useful. So you will have an empty forum.

The initial list is 350 companies deep. That is probably 15% of the total (tech companies only, around 2,000+). That is why SF housing price will go up for the next two years minimum.

14   BoomAndBustCycle   2015 Jan 19, 5:37pm  

You should open it up to the "Silicon Beach" tech companies that are moving in to Southern California, specifically Los Angeles. Widen the conversation a bit.

15   Rin   2015 Jan 19, 7:11pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says

"Silicon Beach" tech companies that are moving in to Southern California, specifically Los Angeles

Need a new term. *Silicone Valley* is the San Fernando Valley, the boob job capital of America.

16   evilmonkeyboy   2015 Jan 19, 7:43pm  

Quigley says

This was always a site for gen x and Y peeps to come and bitch about how badly they were getting fucked over by the goddam housing prices/market/crash and the bad shit that evil wealthy people were doing to the economy.

Nothing wrong with making a website for those people to vent.... if you can make money on it.

17   SJ   2015 Jan 19, 8:08pm  

They just want cheap slave labor from India work for peanuts bunk 12 to a room all wear cheap backpacks ride bus and work 7 days a week for less than 30k year. If you're American over 40 forget about a STEM career and start living like a North Korean.

18   Dan8267   2015 Jan 20, 7:20am  

evilmonkeyboy says

In fact there are just to many crazies around here spouting conspiracy theories.

Hey, some of us come to Patnet solely for the latest in Zionist conspiracies.

19   turtledove   2015 Jan 20, 12:45pm  

So, this site's main mission now is to discuss SFBA tech companies?

I guess that's one way to shut me up!

If you're ever looking for another way to shut me up, make this site about geography. I tend to get very quiet whenever discussions turn to geography.... Unless we limit the discussion to pre-Soviet-breakup geography. it's sad, I know.

20   Peter P   2015 Jan 20, 12:58pm  

turtledove says

So, this site's main mission now is to discuss SFBA tech companies?

I guess that's one way to shut me up!

If you're ever looking for another way to shut me up, make this site about geography. I tend to get very quiet whenever discussions turn to geography.... Unless we limit the discussion to pre-Soviet-breakup geography. it's sad, I know.

Don't worry. Just don't play attention to the "mission." I surely don't. :-)

21   anonymous   2015 Jan 20, 1:30pm  


I think nationally housing has already crashed and is not about to surge any time soon.

seriously??? L O L

22   Patrick   2015 Jan 20, 7:50pm  

Peter P says

Don't worry. Just don't play attention to the "mission." I surely don't. :-)

this.

i'm going to have some fun with the site, but it will always be possible to debate whatever you want here.

23   Peter P   2015 Jan 20, 7:54pm  


Peter P says

Don't worry. Just don't play attention to the "mission." I surely don't. :-)

this.

i'm going to have some fun with the site, but it will always be possible to debate whatever you want here.

Definitely have fun! It is your site after all. Hope more people will join in. :-)

24   elliemae   2015 Jan 20, 9:23pm  


Peter P says

Don't worry. Just don't play attention to the "mission." I surely don't. :-)

this.

i'm going to have some fun with the site, but it will always be possible to debate whatever you want here.

I still check Patnet, but am tired of the people who are off of their medications. Sure wish they'd take 'em again.

25   Peter P   2015 Jan 20, 9:44pm  

elliemae says

I still check Patnet, but am tired of the people who are off of their medications. Sure wish they'd take 'em again.

Just consider them free entertainment.

26   B.A.C.A.H.   2015 Jan 20, 10:11pm  

I followed Patrick's site for a lot of years.

Because it was Bay Area centric and All About the Housing Cool Aid.

Tech employers in the Bay is housing and housing in the Bay is tech employers and so if Patrick's new focus is 99% useless to non techies then it'll be back to its original focus and 99% more relevant to the target audience.

Sorry about that, dude.

27   lostand confused   2015 Jan 21, 5:48am  

This is one of the few sites , where you can discuss whatever you want and say whatever you want. I think that is nice. Weather it is real estate or tech- as long as there is a misc folder, everything is good.

28   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2015 Jan 21, 5:49am  

It was alway about the Pentium.

29   Dan8267   2015 Jan 21, 7:23am  


i'm going to have some fun with the site, but it will always be possible to debate whatever you want here.

I want to debate Bass or Treble. Personally, I've always been a treble man. Lots of treble with a small bass works for me.

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