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Bitwarden hasn’t “enshittified” anything. It’s all entirely speculative
by zeroonetwothree 5mo ago
Bitwarden hasn’t “enshittified” anything. It’s all entirely speculative
- smallmancontrov 5mo agoDoes a bear shit in the woods?
- wafflemaker 5mo agoInteresting, where are you from? Where does this proverb come from? I know this proverb as (translating from Polish): You're asking the boar if he's shitting in the forest.
- chuckadams 5mo agoIt's an extremely common phrase in the US, along with "Is the Pope Catholic?" Sometimes the two phrases are humorously mixed together.
- alluro2 5mo agoI've never heard it mixed (not from US)... "Is bear a Catholic?" doesn't seem very funny. But a notion that everyone knows how Pope is regularly shitting in the woods absolutely is :)
- Jailbird 5mo agoWe say "are bears Catholic?" when in more polite company and we can't get away with asking if the Pope shits in the woods :)
- smallmancontrov 5mo agoI don't know if it is exactly the same proverb -- it isn't about objecting to the bear (or boar) shitting in the woods, it is about our ability to infer that the bear shits in the woods even if we have never seen it happen. We know the bear shits, we know the bear lives in the woods, even people who have lived in the city their entire life and have never seen bear shit can infer that the bear shits in the woods. In context, my intended meaning was that software enshittification works the same way: we don't have to see a particular private equity firm enshittify a particular piece of software to know that they do enshittify software, just as we do not have to see a bear shit in the woods to know that the bear does shit in the woods.
- mixologic 5mo agoyet. The hallmarks of enshittification are there. We've all been through the cycle of "this product is too good to be true, and provides considerably more value than it costs" "Customer Acquisition/Market Capture" phase. And we know what has to come next. They have to make the product profitable, because you cant just burn up VC money forever.
- jnovek 5mo agoI don’t wait for companies to enshittify anymore. When they start making decisions that look like they’re heading in that direction, I start looking for alternatives.
- zzleeper 5mo agoSame. Whenever I see a PE acquisition, I immediately shift my purchases (eg namecheap last year)
- trinsic2 5mo agoLooks pretty bad regardless of speculation. There are enough red flags to warrant actions and to consider this another enshitification.
- evolve2k 5mo agoIt has already enshitified. These changes are text book. - Inclusion and Transparency values made more shitty - Always free commitment removed. What? It’s right there “always”. - Shittily hacking old blog post to become nonsensical - Loss of confidence - Stalling improvement cycle, no more repairs, just things quietly breaking and going bad.
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- overgard 5mo agoPE's entire modus operandi is enshittification. If there's no enshittification to be done there would be no point in purchasing the company
- degamad 5mo agoRed flags are always speculative. The point is that if there are only one or two red flags, you can risk assess them and continue as is if the risk is low. But if there are a large number of red flags, then you need to consider your exit strategy as well.