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The Beeper codebase is also in a pretty bad state.
Didn't they just do a ground-up rewrite?
Let’s hope so
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Is Automattic big enough to achieve that? You'd think they would be making a pretty penny from Wordpress.com and Tumblr, but these days you wouldn't pick either one over the competition (Wix, Squarespace Threads, IG etc).
Automattic does like $200~$300M in revenue.
That doesn't sound much considering they employ like 2k people, that's $100k per worker and considering they're tech workers that would just cover their pay
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You are one lucky person and I envy you.
Yep it's a great place to be especially when the CEO from a company punches down on a volunteer project on the day that CEO sold their company for 125 Million USD... /s
Is 125 m the actual number? I would be surprised if they got more than 10.
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Yep it's a great place to be especially when the CEO from a company punches down on a volunteer project on the day that CEO sold their company for 125 Million USD... /s
Is 125 m the actual number? I would be surprised if they got more than 10.
That's what tech crunch and others are reporting https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/wordpress-com-owner-automa...
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If you've followed Beeper, you know that roughly 50% of our product is already open source ( https://github.com/beeper ). You can run your own Matrix server and use our bridges, or self-host the bridges and use Beeper clients ( https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager ). For all intents and purposes, Beeper _is_ the rejuvenated and very open Pidgin. Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new inve…
> Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new investors) to keep working on Beeper. Is the added investment necessary to scale out specific features, or is it to address challenges related to profitability?
What he meant was they were running out of money.
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Automattic is primarily four core businesses: 1. WordPress.com - Hosted SaaS for building websites. Very cheap to run, includes ads on free sites, and they sell users upgrades like custom domains or removing ads from their sites. 2. Jetpack - Services for self-hosted WordPress sites, like backups, social media integration, image CDN, antispam - mostly paid services, again very cheap to run. 3. WooCommerce - Open sour…
I am on an old Premium plan for the Day One journaling app. It was recently acquired by Automattic. Happy to keep paying, but concerned that Apple recently Sherlocked it.
The Apple Journal app is really really limited, and probably good enough for anyone who isn’t a serious journaler.
The only “innovative” feature the Apple Journal app has is access to private data that other apps don’t, to be able to come up with ML-based journalling recommendations. However, this feature is also exposed via an API, for other journalling apps to implement too.
So… if you’re not actually a journaler, the Apple Journal app is probably good enough for you.
If you actually journal, you’ll probably use Day One, because the set of compromises it makes best aligns with the majority of active journalers.
It upset me when they turned off iCloud sync in favour of their proprietary server sync, because they’re effectively asking me to trust them with my data. They finally implemented E2EE though, and it looks like it’s been implemented properly, so it’s less bothersome again.
It’s just a shame that Diarium refuses to implement high resolution images, or they’d actually be a viable competitor with the ability to self-host your E2EE DB sync.
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> Are you planning to continue using Matrix to underpin Beeper? Yes, all of Beeper is built on top of Matrix.
IIRC matrix and its foundation? were hurting for funding a while back and might yet still be. Did Beeper contribute to it or does Automattic plan to?
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If you've followed Beeper, you know that roughly 50% of our product is already open source ( https://github.com/beeper ). You can run your own Matrix server and use our bridges, or self-host the bridges and use Beeper clients ( https://github.com/beeper/bridge-manager ). For all intents and purposes, Beeper _is_ the rejuvenated and very open Pidgin. Automattic is a fantastic home for us. We needed a home (or new inve…
FWIW, Pidgin is still very much alive, we even had a release in February... Also not sure what "very open Pidgin" means as we're 100% GPLv2 but whatever.
Grim, I apologize. I spoke too soon. I didn't mean to offend you or demean pidgin. I was reacting too harshly to the parent.
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#269The Verge reports: > Since then, Beeper has rolled out some security upgrades that change the way the app handles security and prevent Beeper itself from seeing unencrypted messages from Signal, WhatsApp, and other encrypted apps. Screenshots of Beeper’s desktop and mobile apps. How?
Here's how it works: https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/how-beeper-android-works/
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#270Might be a bit late to the debate, but is Beeper secure enough to use? I'm apprehensive about installing it.