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Crazy if true. Imagine suggesting something like that at a real company.
by enraged_camel 8y ago
Crazy if true.
Imagine suggesting something like that at a real company.
- danShumway 8y agoNot to defend Diaspora, but it's not exactly like this stuff doesn't happen in real companies. To pick one example out of a hat, when Twitter bough Smyte, they shut down the API 30 minutes after announcing the acquisition[0], leaving vendors like NPM with no warning. After getting hammered by large companies in the press who depended on their services, their response was, "we could have done better and are learning from this experience." From a customer perspective, there's not really any practical difference between a company deleting your account because the founders were just given a ton of money, and a company deleting your account because the founders are worried about database performance. [0]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
- nostrademons 8y agoFrom the company perspective, in the former case the company no longer exists, while in the latter case the likely will not exist in the future. The customers get screwed in either case, but the reason people are incredulous about Diaspora's DB wipe is because it's the company screwing itself.