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520 points kevinyew | 3 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Pfhortune ◴[04 Sep 25 17:05 UTC] No.45129487[source]▶
It has been so tragic to see the unforced downfall of this company. Arc is such an amazing browser that really did some new and interesting things. They clearly have some phenomenal talent on the team, having managed to get their swift-centric development working on _Windows_. That's a huge and difficult undertaking!

And they threw it away to work on (probably) the CEO's new fixation and threw Arc away like an old toy. And now they're selling to Atlassian and I would bet money, will just evaporate. Nothing they ever built will mean anything to Atlassian in the long term. Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser.

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neutronicus ◴[04 Sep 25 18:08 UTC] No.45130285[source]▶
> Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser.

False.

On my work machine, I would grasp at any straw that promised to make JIRA less annoying.

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makeitdouble ◴[04 Sep 25 22:47 UTC] No.45133108[source]▶
Did any Atlassian product ever make JIRA less annoying ?

My impression was JiRA is the planet and everything else are satellites turning around. They come and go but never touch JIRA.

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1. blackqueeriroh ◴[05 Sep 25 06:57 UTC] No.45135707{3}[source]▶
yeah, lots of them. Every day. All the time. But you’d have to learn to understand that most of the problem you have with Jira has nothing to do with the tool and everything to do with how it’s been implemented.
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2. makeitdouble ◴[05 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45138638[source]▶
I beg to differ. Jira can be used in a sensible way, but that absolutely not how the tool is pitched nor how it guides user and companies. I'd compare it to giving users a 30 tools swiss army knife when all they should be using is the + driver and the scissors.

The issue being that teams that have that maturity don't need to kitchen sink in the first place and will be combining their own selected tools. That's how so many teams can get by with Notion and Gitlab only.

I spent more than a decade in JIRA and the Atlassian suite and can't think of any synergy that I miss TBH. Confluence in particular was fine for the time but does it stand the current competition ?

3. indemnity ◴[05 Sep 25 21:01 UTC] No.45143566[source]▶
Somehow all the implementations are equally lacklustre though? What is the common denominator.