[0xpgm]

I guess it happens when engineers stop driving decisions and the finance people take over. Won't be too good for the company's valuation if people can access the content elsewhere.

I guess that's why Discord is also locked down as much. They have community content that is inaccessible anywhere else but Discord.

[fuzztester]

I don't like this engineers vs. finance people / MBA divide that I see parroted a lot on HN. And obviously, it's parroted by engineers.

Like, all engineers are saints and the other side are all sinners. What crap. Get real, guys. There are all kinds of multicolored and multidimensional people.

Having been on all 3 or 4 or 5 of these sides :) (dev, sysadm, manager, consultant, ...), I have seen that.

Grow up, folks, and enjoy life in all its richness.

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[alex1138]

Yeah but Zuck has always been a nasty piece of work. He wasn't "just young" and "grew up" when he wrote those IMs. See: (to list just one) the constant copying of Snapchat

[pmdr]

He copied Snapchat and then Tiktok -- which have been most likely immensely positive for the bottom line.

[nicbou]

To be fair, it benefits a platform’s users to reduce automated posts in favour of real contributions.