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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by usr1106 » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 5:13 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #437

neutronicus wrote: post #272

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> 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.

I hate Jira like all good people, though in fairness I haven't really found a replacement for it that I actually liked. The closest I've used was Pivotal Tracker, which I believe is dead now, but I still remember finding stuff annoying about it (though drawing a blank on those facts right now). I wonder if dedicated ticket management stuff at scale is just inherently going to be annoying. I use Obsidian with the Task…

We had Gitlab issues for 7 years at work. It was a clear and reponsive UI, simple but powerful markdown editing. Probably only 20% of the functionality what you can theoretically do with Jira, but just more pleasant to use and we got everything done. Over the years Gitlab kept adding more features and response times slightly decreased, but still nothing compared to Jira. After changing jobs I have to use Jira and hate it every day.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by usr1106 » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 5:19 AM UTC

To be honest I don't understand the logic in acquisation and I don't care. As a forced Jira user I just hope it's a good thing for me that the money they have spent on the acquisation cannot be used to make already overloaded Jira more overloaded.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by barrell » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 5:30 AM UTC

crowcroft wrote: post #173

The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Arc had pretty good market validation with early adopters, they say that growth was flattened out but IMO that's normal for most products, and it's up to the company to find out WHY growth flattened and then solve that problem. Not kill the product and chase some en…

IIRC growth wasn’t flattening, it was growing pretty fast, basically hockey stick. It just wasn’t hockey stick enough to get to a billion users quickly.

At least, that was their justification publicly, maybe the real numbers were less optimistic

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by rkomorn » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 5:35 AM UTC

neodymiumphish wrote: post #392

rkomorn wrote: post #143

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I'm not a mind reader but I think the post you replied to was sarcasm.

I am a mind reader and can confirm the post he replied to was sarcasm.

Do you do contract work? I've got some minds that need reading.

And can you read dog minds?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by potamic » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 5:49 AM UTC

ale wrote: post #372

scosman wrote: post #202

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A UI framework? What’s the other $608m for?

Just like the old Carlin joke. Made me chuckle.

What was the joke?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by 3uler » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 6:14 AM UTC

Another excellent product off to the gallows at atlasian. Joining ops genie and trello.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by sniffers » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 6:17 AM UTC

don_neufeld wrote: post #152

sniffers wrote: post #103

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Scuttlebutt is Josh Miller is pretty unpleasant to work with and believes Dia is like a holy revelation or something (rather than a chrome extension that calls ChatGPT for you). What respect does delusions of grandeur and crashing out at Atlassian deserve?

Curious what you’ve heard. I certainly enjoyed working with him and Hurst in the early days at Obvious 2.0 when we were incubating Branch. A bunch of Medium & Obvious 2.0 alumni I respect work or worked at TBC (Dustin, DanB, Connor, Cemre, maybe others).

I've heard when things got tight, empathy vanished. When things were great he was great, if a bit overzealous about Dia. When things got hard, you better hope you were the kind of person he liked or you'd find yourself out the door quickly, no matter what your output was.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by sniffers » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 6:17 AM UTC

jereees wrote: post #389

sniffers wrote: post #130

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What a horrifying outlook.

Horrifying? I think it’s humble to say unless you believe in perfection Edit: lol I read conned as convinced.

Yeah, treating dating like a con is a wild thing to assert.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by rglynn » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 6:30 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #437

neutronicus wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

I hate Jira like all good people, though in fairness I haven't really found a replacement for it that I actually liked. The closest I've used was Pivotal Tracker, which I believe is dead now, but I still remember finding stuff annoying about it (though drawing a blank on those facts right now). I wonder if dedicated ticket management stuff at scale is just inherently going to be annoying. I use Obsidian with the Task…

Out of interest, what issues did you have with Linear?

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by globular-toast » Fri, Sep 05, 2025, 6:40 AM UTC

jimmydoe wrote: post #73

ghm2199 wrote: post #43

I've switched to Zen browser recently (I like it's spaces and folder structure to organize work on a daily basis, same as Arc). fFox nightly is not there yet but it's getting close with tabs on the left..

Zen is nice. Arc is still irreplaceable for its true separation of tab and window, it’s like tmux for browser, I haven’t seen any other browser do that.

Emacs does that.