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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: 0s | 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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Pfhortune ◴[04 Sep 25 18:10 UTC] No.45130316[source]▶
Based on my usage of Jira over the years, I believe all the annoying parts of Jira come from _within_ the walls of Atlassian HQ...
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1. e40 ◴[05 Sep 25 14:36 UTC] No.45139101[source]▶
This. They consistently ignore user feedback on problems with their ui. It’s really a mess and slow as hell.