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by gautamcgoel 1837 days ago
I've never seen a company burn goodwill among it's users so quickly or effectively.
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Robinhood?
People still use Robinhood. From Freenode, there was a mass exodus. From Robinhood, people mostly just complained and kept using the app.
Robinhood had legitimate, if hard to understand, liquidity reasons for stopping trading on $GME. As far as I can tell Lee has no strategy at all for Freenode, and just keeps trying different fuels to extinguish the fire.
Spraying kerosene onto the fire doesn't seem to be working too well.
What if we would try to take away its oxygen by covering it with dynamite?
I know you're joking, but dynamite is actually used to extinguish oil well fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_well_fire#Extinguishing_th...
Well, this network reset (pretty much, suicide as the link says) seems like covering everything with dynamite and starting over.

But the new thing will have fires appear anyway.

Basecamp gave it a shake
Eh. Were many users affected at all by the shakeup? Seems like a vocal minority of employees left and that was that.
I wouldn't say a third of your employees is a vocal minority. It's a pretty sizeable amount.
Sure, but odds are a good number of them were motivated by three or six month buyouts more than culture. And we're talking about a grand total of like 18 people here.