35 points snackernews | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 20:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source

All of the coverage and opinions I’ve read have focused on the longer term impact to the WordPress ecosystem itself.

I’m an enthusiastic longtime paying user of Pocket Casts and Day One.

Now that employees are leaving in droves (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872046) I fear for both.

Pocket Casts is the only podcast app that has ever clicked for me.

I’ve invested significant time and personal writing and media into Day One journals. Privacy concerns aside, it’s an app and platform I enjoy using.

How many of the employees fleeing Automattic couldn’t care less about WordPress but are the product and technical expertise behind these other products?

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Glant ◴[17 Oct 24 22:44 UTC] No.41874571[source]▶

>>41873445 (OP) #

80% of the Twitter workforce was fired. The first month was kind of shaky, but at least from my point of view the platform has been pretty stable.

I of course can't say for sure, but I imagine most of Automattics products will continue running though maybe with a much lower frequency of updates.

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1. csomar ◴[18 Oct 24 12:54 UTC] No.41878992[source]▶

>>41874571 #

Twitter has been anything but stable; though I'd blame most of that on Musk rather than the layoffs.

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