Leaving Mozilla

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Post by dmm » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 8:48 PM UTC

Re: Leaving Mozilla

#2

Post by chordalkeyboard » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

> The cherry on top was being specifically targeted for harassment that same week after the release by unhappy users of Firefox looking for someone to direct their frustrations at.

Thats lovely.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by throwaway123x2 » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:14 PM UTC

FireFox is my main driver and I still use it on Android... but I have to say the android refresh wasn't great. It's full on random usability errors, it crashes, and they started curating extensions for mobile.

That said, I do appreciate all the work FireFox devs put in to give us a Chrome alternative. Misfires happen. I hope FF for Android keeps getting better with time.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by adamcstephens » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:15 PM UTC

I hope Emily can learn to separate work from not-work, and set those boundaries early in any new role. It's not healthy to work all the time, and we all need our own time.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

#5

Post by thgaway17 » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:16 PM UTC

Looking at the picture makes me wonder why tech doesn’t get more constant criticism for being almost completely devoid of black faces?

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by systemvoltage » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:17 PM UTC

I still use Firefox. I’m sticking around. It’s becoming more annoying to use, but I’d rather support Mozilla than anyone else.

The window into the internet shouldn’t be controlled by big companies. It’s a principle thing for me.

To the author, thanks for your efforts.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by renewiltord » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

There's an inherent danger in catering to the privacy/security groupies: they don't want you to succeed. The reason for this isn't that they don't care about privacy or security. The reason is that their primary motivation here is ostentatious ideological purity. Absent a church at which they can profess piety and denounce impurity in others, they take to the Internet to do the same.

Cater to them at your own risk.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by mdoms » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

thgaway17 wrote: post #5

Looking at the picture makes me wonder why tech doesn’t get more constant criticism for being almost completely devoid of black faces?

Tech gets unending criticism for lack of diversity including the lack of black employees.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by walrus01 » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:19 PM UTC

> That and.. I am also extremely burnt out.

> Working too much during the week for the last 2 years was normal for me

We need to stop normalizing working beyond a 40 hour work week. I can accomplish far more and with greater clarity of purpose, mental acuity and motivation in an actual 40 hours, than I could if I attempt to push myself to 10-12 hours a day.

Re: Leaving Mozilla

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Post by gabereiser » Thu, Feb 11, 2021, 9:20 PM UTC

> ...but the release just felt like a blip in our planned schedule before jumping into more sprints and fires and thinking about the next iteration.

Welcome to agile? I know the feeling, honestly, but in software engineering there's always more bugs to fix, more features to develop, more needs of the users that require your attention. Cutting a release should feel like letting go, and indeed at places it does, but ultimately once the release is out in the wild it's done. The only thing to do then is to move forward with the next iteration, the next sprint, the next release.

Sorry, but are there examples or cites for this harassment from the users? Was it fallout from the layoffs? I feel like I need a bit more context.