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I suspect that this comes from tunnel vision and not interacting with enough casual users. Hypothetically, if the feedback they're seeing is that people despera

I suspect that this comes from tunnel vision and not interacting with enough casual users. Hypothetically, if the feedback they're seeing is that people desperately want jobs and will do whatever it takes, they may only be exposed to a subset that would have no qualms with making the info public. Especially if that subset is already out of work. I can imagine, in that scenario, not thinking about all the devs who signed up over the years and are no longer searching, or are searching but doing so quietly.

hagy 6y ago
Agreed. I could imagine how many of the most active users of their platform would be excited for any feature that improved their prospect of landing a job. Combined with the team's excitement for taking on LinkedIn and expanding their company, I could see how they'd fall into this tunnel vision. Initially I was quite unhappy with how their CEO blindly defended the decision on the earlier HN thread, but I gotta give him credit for changing his mind and drafting this earnest apology. Everyone is human and its easy to get caught up in your own bubble, especially when you've been excitedly executing on a vision with a team that also lives in that bubble. Still don't think I'll ever use their platform as either a member of a hiring team or as a job seeker. But at least this followup lessens my negative connotation for Triplebyte that developed over the previous few days.