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Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices to focus on profitability
- sethammons 4y agoDup from an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773865
- yellow_lead 4y agoWhy's it hidden from the frontpage? edit: its second for me.. guess the algorithm prioritizes newness or something
- speedgoose 4y agoIt got many comments quickly and I guess the HN anti flame ware algorithm deprioritised the post.
- dang 4y agoA few reasons, including that it set off the flamewar detector a.k.a. overheated discussion detector; and we downweighted it because there have been countless yet-another-layoffs-story posts recently, so the bar for interestingness has to be higher. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22significant%20new%20information%22%20by%3Adang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... on the latter point. Also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
- yellow_lead 4y agoMakes sense, thanks dang
- dang 4y agoComments moved thither. Thanks!
- seandoe 4y agoThank you for introducing me to the word thither.
- esel2k 4y agoWhat do they do with the closed offices? Moved to remote or completely removing those locations incl all employees there?