I really dislike this entire mentality so much. At what point did we go from a place where you have a diverse set of companies making good revenues and profits and serve their audiences well to this crappy model of everyone trying to be the next Instagram.
Adult content creators are probably going to get booted off at some point for 'ad-friendliness' despite the fact that they helped build most of it.
If they did this they will end up like tumblr: in the oblivion. They have the luck to be profitable, differently from tumblr. Them pivoting to non porn would be a choice, not a necessity like tumblr
There are plenty of such sites. You don't hear about them in the Web Dev/Startup bubble because they're just getting on with life and their business model, not open-sourcing the latest JavaScript framework du jour.
Sorry, people with mortgages and children don't quit jobs due to "signaling".
They only quit jobs when they've got the alternative lined up. And they change jobs because the compensation doesn't outweigh the crap.
When a big chunk of your company suddenly walks, that's either high crap or low compensation. And it's been ongoing because they've had time to plan their exit as a group.
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I really dislike this entire mentality so much. At what point did we go from a place where you have a diverse set of companies making good revenues and profits and serve their audiences well to this crappy model of everyone trying to be the next Instagram.
Adult content creators are probably going to get booted off at some point for 'ad-friendliness' despite the fact that they helped build most of it.
If they did this they will end up like tumblr: in the oblivion. They have the luck to be profitable, differently from tumblr. Them pivoting to non porn would be a choice, not a necessity like tumblr
On the Internet, you're either growing or dying.
Do we have even a single example of an Internet company that has been constant and consistently profitable over 10 years?
Tarsnap, maybe?
There are plenty of such sites. You don't hear about them in the Web Dev/Startup bubble because they're just getting on with life and their business model, not open-sourcing the latest JavaScript framework du jour.
Craigslist.
Okay, that's fair, even if it's not what I intended.
That probably counts as "constant" because they saturated the market completely.
I was more interested in companies that were something like "$25 million per year for the last 10-15 years and we're doing just fine thanks."
Basecamp
Who seem to have recently had a meltdown and compensation seems to be part of it.
Yeah, a meltdown in the Twitter virtue signaling bubble.
Sorry, people with mortgages and children don't quit jobs due to "signaling".
They only quit jobs when they've got the alternative lined up. And they change jobs because the compensation doesn't outweigh the crap.
When a big chunk of your company suddenly walks, that's either high crap or low compensation. And it's been ongoing because they've had time to plan their exit as a group.
The "signaling" just gave them a nice excuse.