[smallgovt]

Why not show some understanding for the people who worked tirelessly to pursue a common goal that's now come to an end, and their most loyal users who are going to be sad to see it go. As someone else said, nobody forced you to read the "6 shitty paragraphs". It's almost like you're throwing a tantrum at a parent who posted a longwinded obituary in the newspaper for their kid.

[stonogo]

Yes, what a selfless act of charity those people undertook in exchange for mere hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Let us have a moment of silence for the millions of man-hours selflessly donated to this organization, which was founded by Mother Theresa herself.

This unassailable high ground certainly warrants six paragraphs of pointless our-incredible-journeying, especially as they go on to describe the future of the organization as 'tinkering around.'

[smallgovt]

I never alluded to their journey being selfless or charitable...

Just because the team partially did this for profit, doesn't mean they didn't work their asses off and are now sad to shut it down. Nor does it discredit the claim that some of their users are going to be very sad to see it go. That was my point.

[bluishgreen]

People are upvoting it because people were pissed with yikyak. Last I checked (and it was more than a year ago) yikyak was the preferred safespace to be racist on campus. So it is tone deaf only if you are reading this comment alone, but if you know the whole history of the company, this comment hits the right tone it is almost musical.

How many years has it been since people have pointed out twitter is a place where women are being harassed and treated worse like you wouldn't believe. Is the company doing anything about it? Not really. If they did, it would have stopped. I wish twitter also rids itself like this somehow.

[nindalf]

We get it, this is a difficult moment for the founders and employees. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with writing candidly instead of assaulting us with marketing speak. If they're trying to spin things at this point, it can be quite annoying to read and I personally would lose a bit of sympathy that I'd otherwise have.