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> I'm surprised they managed to keep half their staff. Me too, but the default response was that those that stayed are already sending out feelers rather than

> I'm surprised they managed to keep half their staff. Me too, but the default response was that those that stayed are already sending out feelers rather than shipping code; I think dating apps are an odd thing of my generation that, like social media, I never 'got' but the fact remains there are enough people using them to have market product fit and have had a modest but apparently useful work-force. They just cut your work force in half with some short term gain(s) in the process, but to seriously think that others who didn't leave won't jump ship when they have the chance is absurd: the 'WFH = fired' mantra echoed by Amazon and Elon recently with X (see how well that's gone as he has driven that company into the ground entirely by himself) and Tesla etc... then this may be how these things lose market share. I'm indifferent to the app's existance but I'm glad that worker solidarity made one half quit rather than be forced into an archaic modality that tech doesn't need to be in; but maybe these people go work on something other than a hook-up app and people go back to meeting in clubs/bars/library/park/party and these workers actually apply there skills to something of actual use. It's a win-win in my book.

redhale 3y ago
> apply [their] skills to something of actual use What a bizarre thing to say in 2023. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 40 who doesn't know at least one couple who met online. These people lost their jobs. No need to ignorantly denigrate their work as well.
- FFP999 3y ago
  Literally 100% of my immediate family married someone they met online. 75% of us, including myself, are still married to said online date.
- Melting_Harps 3y ago
  > I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 40 who doesn't know at least one couple who met online. What an off-the-mark conclusion, I like many other tech working millennials grew up on the internet and came of age when it became (reluctantly) what it is now; of course I know people who met online, I have spent way too much of my Life online so I personally refused to use them and don't see their allure; I still rely on social interactions to meet partners. I'm way too analog in that respect despite a majority of my life being spent online. > These people lost their jobs. No need to ignorantly denigrate their work as well. They didn't lose their jobs, so much as showed that RTO is so absurd that its not worth returning even if it meant being terminated to satisfy the managerial class, and that is what conviction looks like; and I'm not denigrating their work, so much as underscoring worker resentment will make them move on to something more worthy of their time. Ultimately, I'm praising them as they have my full solidarity and exposing Grindr to be just as myopic as Amazon/X/Tesla run by imbeciles who are forcing them back to the office despite many studies showing that the metrics and performance are not decreasing and have offered people actual work life balance and have made many (but not all) more satisfied and productive. This mentality is wide spread in Corporate America, and apparently Grindr is complicit and willing to risk it's workforce to do it to, despite all it's branding of inclusiveness it clearly doesn't include respecting their workers preferences: ironic huh? Almost like this narrative only holds water when its profitable and suits them.
Cpoll 3y ago
> people go back to meeting in clubs/bars/library/park/party Yeah, I hear those are safe, inclusive and readily available all over the world for people that use Grindr. Incidentally, isn't HN not of actual use on the same token? Shouldn't you be telling someone in a bar about this instead?
- Melting_Harps 3y ago
  > Yeah, I hear those are safe, inclusive and readily available all over the world for people that use Grindr. I admit I didn't know it was an app exclusively for gay people, and while you are right that many are vilified in certain countries that doesn't really stop people from meeting, and I'd argue if the systemic prosecution of people based on their sexual orientation is going on they likely have bigger issues than their developers deciding to draw a line in terms of worker rights. Israel comes to mind. > Incidentally, isn't HN not of actual use on the same token? Shouldn't you be telling someone in a bar about this instead? It is not my primary form of interacting with people, let alone where I look for potential partners: incidentally I had just come from wishing my friends (incidentally a lesbian couple) well wishes on their trip to Cabo this weekend at a Korean BBQ spot when I wrote that so... you draw your own conclusions.

redhale 3y ago

> apply [their] skills to something of actual use What a bizarre thing to say in 2023. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 40 who doesn't know at least one couple who met online. These people lost their jobs. No need to ignorantly denigrate their work as well.

FFP999 3y ago
Literally 100% of my immediate family married someone they met online. 75% of us, including myself, are still married to said online date.
Melting_Harps 3y ago
> I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 40 who doesn't know at least one couple who met online. What an off-the-mark conclusion, I like many other tech working millennials grew up on the internet and came of age when it became (reluctantly) what it is now; of course I know people who met online, I have spent way too much of my Life online so I personally refused to use them and don't see their allure; I still rely on social interactions to meet partners. I'm way too analog in that respect despite a majority of my life being spent online. > These people lost their jobs. No need to ignorantly denigrate their work as well. They didn't lose their jobs, so much as showed that RTO is so absurd that its not worth returning even if it meant being terminated to satisfy the managerial class, and that is what conviction looks like; and I'm not denigrating their work, so much as underscoring worker resentment will make them move on to something more worthy of their time. Ultimately, I'm praising them as they have my full solidarity and exposing Grindr to be just as myopic as Amazon/X/Tesla run by imbeciles who are forcing them back to the office despite many studies showing that the metrics and performance are not decreasing and have offered people actual work life balance and have made many (but not all) more satisfied and productive. This mentality is wide spread in Corporate America, and apparently Grindr is complicit and willing to risk it's workforce to do it to, despite all it's branding of inclusiveness it clearly doesn't include respecting their workers preferences: ironic huh? Almost like this narrative only holds water when its profitable and suits them.

Cpoll 3y ago

> people go back to meeting in clubs/bars/library/park/party Yeah, I hear those are safe, inclusive and readily available all over the world for people that use Grindr. Incidentally, isn't HN not of actual use on the same token? Shouldn't you be telling someone in a bar about this instead?

Melting_Harps 3y ago
> Yeah, I hear those are safe, inclusive and readily available all over the world for people that use Grindr. I admit I didn't know it was an app exclusively for gay people, and while you are right that many are vilified in certain countries that doesn't really stop people from meeting, and I'd argue if the systemic prosecution of people based on their sexual orientation is going on they likely have bigger issues than their developers deciding to draw a line in terms of worker rights. Israel comes to mind. > Incidentally, isn't HN not of actual use on the same token? Shouldn't you be telling someone in a bar about this instead? It is not my primary form of interacting with people, let alone where I look for potential partners: incidentally I had just come from wishing my friends (incidentally a lesbian couple) well wishes on their trip to Cabo this weekend at a Korean BBQ spot when I wrote that so... you draw your own conclusions.