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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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jdlyga ◴[04 Sep 25 14:45 UTC] No.45127885[source]▶
Arc Browser is an excellent "what could have been" story. The UI came together amazingly fast, there was excellent posts every week with updates from the project lead, and it felt fresh and exciting. It would be an amazing open source project, but there just not a good way to monetize it. There's no other browser, including newer projects like Zen, with a better ui. I would strongly encourage Atlassian to open source Arc.
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kadomony ◴[04 Sep 25 14:56 UTC] No.45128017[source]▶
I bet they were already in talks for being acquired and not open sourcing Arc was one of the conditions.

Who knows what Atlassian will do with it, but I did find it a bit frustrating that in the Atlassian blog announcing the acquisition, they showcase images of Arc when they're specifically talking about Dia. The two browsers do not have UI parity, and much of what I loved about Arc would need to be recreated in Dia.

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1. ljbred08 ◴[05 Sep 25 13:26 UTC] No.45138312[source]▶
Exactly! I hope Atlassian actually has some sense: either Arc's UX needs to be merged into Dia or Dia's functionality needs to be merged into Arc. You can't keep either going otherwise.