It’s literally been 2 years, and as others have said, they’re not gonna start firing people or creating positions just to boost some numbers on a spreadsheet.
Is Tildes really ‘competing’? The invite-based signup obviously invites the most dedicated and ‘quality’ individuals, but I don’t see how that’s gonna help with critical mass.
As for Squabbles, I’m suspicious of yet another centralized platform. Honestly, I’m just sorta ‘done’ trusting wannabe billionaires.
To be fair, Jony hasn’t really been completely disconnected from Apple all that long. The effects of him leaving will probably be more apparent 5-6 years from now.
One thing that does worry me though, are the reasons he left; one of them, allegedly, being his hatred of Apple being taken over by ‘bean counters’.
Wow, so there’s a complete comments section overhaul in the works! Thank you so much, I can’t wait to see what you’ve got planned for us and the app.
btw since I’ve got your attention here, I just wanted to add that one more aspect of the app that’ll need some updates in the future (please take a nap) is the text composition box. It’s very close to Apollo’s, but you could add some things to make it even better; one of them being clearer separation between the ‘compose’ box and the comment being replied to.
Twice, but there’s times when I’m too exhausted to bother.