[ramon156]

The more I see Bending Spoons in the news, the more I realize how shitty of a company it aims to be.

I once applied to their job listing. I adored the idea of working there. Now all I can think about is "I'm glad they rejected me"

[bonzini]

Say what you want of Bending Spoons, but they know what they're doing. They buy companies with a faithful user base that are losing money, and jack up prices to force the user base to show if they really are faithful. Then either they make money or they close the service, but it turns out it's the former more often than not.

For example, Evernote was losing money on server costs and after almost 20 years of existence did they really need a generous free tier to build up a user base? All that BS had to do for Evernote to make a profit was nerfing the free tier.

[pqs]

I agree. And Evernote has improved a lot since then.

[fuzzfactor]

Without 20/20 hindsight, it's hard to be so sure about the dividing line between one epoch and another as time marches on.

For instance it took until about 2010 to confirm that we were already headfirst into the Garbaceous Period by 2005, but it was just not that obvious at the time.

Before you know it the Enshittocene crept up without fanfare but the type of extinction it foments might not have been possible without the decline in conditions that came before.

[ImaCake]

I mean they own meetup which is one of the worst platforms that has failed to die in-spite of how terrible a product it is.

[mooreds]

Network effects + inertia are a hell of a drug.