[swyx]

DEI / MEI culture war aside:

> After years of corporate ownership, culminating in Yahoo’s sale to private equity firm Apollo, TC has become a milquetoast site focused on big raises specially placed by expensive PR people and random tech news that has been neutered into pablum. The current editorial structure, controlled by one or two old-guard TCers and a lot of older editors hired by editor Connie Loizos.

sad to realize that this is exactly what i was feeling about TC in the last 3-4 years. is it salvageable?

[oaththrowaway]

It was lost as soon as AOL merged with Yahoo. The leadership of the entire "Oath" suite of companies was a joke

[jdbiggs]

author here: probably not.