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IMO Mozilla has turned into a wrong way since the shitshow with Brendan Eich.

vGPU 3y ago
According to Brave’s stats, they get ~63M MAU. Firefox is now sitting under 200M. That’s a loss of >50M users in two years. Looks like Eich might have been Mozilla’s hidden force keeping the project on the rails.
- pseudalopex 3y ago
  Firefox's market share loss started years before Eich left.
  - BrendanEich 3y ago
    So it's my fault when Firefox lost share to Chrome, and a mysterious coincidence, or at best nothing to my credit, that Brave grew from 0 to ~60M from 2015 when I cofounded it -- makes sense! Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy. I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups. No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past.
    - vGPU 3y ago
      The man, the myth, the legend! I would just like to thank you for continuing to stand up for what you believe in and fighting the good fight. Blessings be upon you :)
    - pseudalopex 3y ago
      Such wild extrapolations from a simply stated fact. They suggested you kept Firefox on the rails. Pointing out it was off the rails didn't imply you derailed it. > Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy. This is nonsense. My comments about Brave have been infrequent and neutral or slightly positive mostly. Recently I did list common criticisms to correct a claim about why people disliked Brave. My criticisms of Mozilla and Firefox have been non technical decisions made after you left mostly if not only. And even pointing out when Firefox's decline began wasn't all about you. Any future for Firefox depends on understanding its decline. > I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups. Were you removed from any photos in this way? Or was it histrionic exaggeration? Mozilla's site hosts posts by you, posts by others mentioning you, historical documents by you, and credits for your work. > No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past. I hope you believe this some day. For your sake.
      - vGPU 3y ago
        He didn’t say about Brave, he said about him. Considering the number of replies you’ve made bickering, I’d say he’s correct.
        pseudalopex 3y ago
        He said about his work. And it would be objectively false either way. I'd say your hero worship affected your comprehension.
mavhc 3y ago
Of course he doubled down on being on the wrong side of everything https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...
- BrendanEich 3y ago
  You still wear a mask? You're on the wrong side of that psyop, at least. But I'm not mandating that you unmask: if your face diaper makes you feel safe, by all means wear one. https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...
  - mavhc 3y ago
    https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...
rc202402 3y ago
Mozilla need to prioritise global user feedback more than their Twitter user feedback Wasting capital on mozilla vpn, ui overhauling the browser to make it corporate appealing never were the problems.

vGPU 3y ago

According to Brave’s stats, they get ~63M MAU. Firefox is now sitting under 200M. That’s a loss of >50M users in two years. Looks like Eich might have been Mozilla’s hidden force keeping the project on the rails.

pseudalopex 3y ago
Firefox's market share loss started years before Eich left.
- BrendanEich 3y ago
  So it's my fault when Firefox lost share to Chrome, and a mysterious coincidence, or at best nothing to my credit, that Brave grew from 0 to ~60M from 2015 when I cofounded it -- makes sense! Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy. I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups. No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past.
  - vGPU 3y ago
    The man, the myth, the legend! I would just like to thank you for continuing to stand up for what you believe in and fighting the good fight. Blessings be upon you :)
  - pseudalopex 3y ago
    Such wild extrapolations from a simply stated fact. They suggested you kept Firefox on the rails. Pointing out it was off the rails didn't imply you derailed it. > Your obsession with me, evident in the need to well-ackshually almost every HN post that might be considered positive about my work, is frankly creepy. This is nonsense. My comments about Brave have been infrequent and neutral or slightly positive mostly. Recently I did list common criticisms to correct a claim about why people disliked Brave. My criticisms of Mozilla and Firefox have been non technical decisions made after you left mostly if not only. And even pointing out when Firefox's decline began wasn't all about you. Any future for Firefox depends on understanding its decline. > I've already been erased from Mozilla's site, a la Stalin-era pre-photoshop photo touchups. Were you removed from any photos in this way? Or was it histrionic exaggeration? Mozilla's site hosts posts by you, posts by others mentioning you, historical documents by you, and credits for your work. > No worries -- let it go, the past is in the past. I hope you believe this some day. For your sake.
    - vGPU 3y ago
      He didn’t say about Brave, he said about him. Considering the number of replies you’ve made bickering, I’d say he’s correct.
      - pseudalopex 3y ago
        He said about his work. And it would be objectively false either way. I'd say your hero worship affected your comprehension.

mavhc 3y ago

Of course he doubled down on being on the wrong side of everything https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-eich-covid-19.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/brave-brendan-ei...

BrendanEich 3y ago
You still wear a mask? You're on the wrong side of that psyop, at least. But I'm not mandating that you unmask: if your face diaper makes you feel safe, by all means wear one. https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-s...
- mavhc 3y ago
  https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventio...

rc202402 3y ago

Mozilla need to prioritise global user feedback more than their Twitter user feedback Wasting capital on mozilla vpn, ui overhauling the browser to make it corporate appealing never were the problems.