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Agreed, I enjoyed it. It wasn't needlessly long and they said what they wanted to say. And I even feel a little bad they're shutting down, because Yik Yak seems
by kakarot 10y ago
Agreed, I enjoyed it. It wasn't needlessly long and they said what they wanted to say. And I even feel a little bad they're shutting down, because Yik Yak seems like a pretty sincere company from the looks of their blog.
- nebabyte 10y agoEh dunno, sounded pretty fluffy to me. Dressing up the move to Square as some 'community' thing when it's likely simple pragmatism, and so on. (Though nowhere near as apparently rage-inducing the other guy found it lol.)
- kakarot 10y agoCan you show me an example of a goodbye post from a company that sounds less 'fluffy' than this?
- dabber 10y agoThere are plenty. Here's a few posted on HN: RethinkDB was very straight forward: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ Wattage too: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ Hackpad from a few days ago: https://hackpad.com/ https://hackpad.com/ The above make their intentions unmistakably clear in the first line.
- kakarot 10y agoThose were good. Thanks for sharing. My standards have been raised.