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Why We're Dropping Basecamp (2023)
- robinhood 3mo ago3 years after, nothing from their sides has changed, and it's worse than before.
- yzydserd 3mo agoHere is pg today. “Duke University library system dropped Basecamp because the founders weren't sufficiently PC.” https://nitter.net/paulg/status/2082164143008707034 https://nitter.net/paulg/status/2082164143008707034
- wannabe44 3mo agoThe ideological honesty here must be appreciated whatever are one's beliefs with DEI [1] - in that DHH is losing business, but his conviction is strong that he is on the right side of history. This kind of conviction is difficult to find among corporate drones pushing DIE. [1] Which are contextual of course; DIE in, say, Spain is not the same as doing so in the US. Not that HR drones would care.
- throwawaypath 3mo ago>in that DHH is losing business Hey and Basecamp usage has skyrocketed since 2023.
- wannabe44 3mo agoThat makes it even more interesting. There are now two possibilities. 1. Most business leaders have quietly turned "anti-woke" because of the performative and loud rhetoric, and DHH considered this before publicly airing his position. 2. Most businesses don't give a F.
- chrisjj 3mo ago> Referring to the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd as “riots” is an offhand gesture as Hansson uses it The problem there is the Hansson words quoted do not show any reference to protests.