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by djezer 3255 days ago
This is the brainchild of one the the founders of Savoir-Faire Linux. I was an employee of theirs and had to use this software for internal communications. It rarely works, crashes a lot and employees would crack jokes everytime we were told to use it. The idea is good. The current state of the app is barely useable. They just fired around a third of their employees (after promising to double in size).
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I was an employee there too. They have really low salary standard and say that "you get to do open source so it's fine". The best programmers get out of there quick and that's why you don't get high quality software from them.

Their business model is based on using people with temporary work permit (coming from out of Canada, mostly France) who are stuck with them if they don't want to go through the process of obtaining another work permit and have to go back to their country in the meantime.

Was an employee too. Can confirm. I think the core idea is good, the implementation still needs some work.