I’m a DigitalOcean customer, but I do hope they won’t mess this sale up. A few years ago they bought Scotch.io (also a popular web developer site at the time) and they pretty much butchered the platform and eventually, 301 Redirected everything to DigitalOcean’s Community platform.

So, while I don’t expect them to “ever” do this, it’s not out of the question of possibility.

DO does pretty badly for trending news and updates in the modern web dev stack, so I can see a world where they get frustrated and try to make DO more relevant in that area.