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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by ljbred08 »

kadomony wrote: post #137
jdlyga wrote: post #113

Arc Browser is an excellent "what could have been" story. The UI came together amazingly fast, there was excellent posts every week with updates from the project lead, and it felt fresh and exciting. It would be an amazing open source project, but there just not a good way to monetize it. There's no other browser, including newer projects like Zen, with a better ui. I would strongly encourage Atlassian to open source…

I bet they were already in talks for being acquired and not open sourcing Arc was one of the conditions. Who knows what Atlassian will do with it, but I did find it a bit frustrating that in the Atlassian blog announcing the acquisition, they showcase images of Arc when they're specifically talking about Dia. The two browsers do not have UI parity, and much of what I loved about Arc would need to be recreated in Dia.

Exactly! I hope Atlassian actually has some sense: either Arc's UX needs to be merged into Dia or Dia's functionality needs to be merged into Arc. You can't keep either going otherwise.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by keijay »

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's performance issues really need to be addressed tho... it hogs an insane amount of memory (and somehow even more than arc)

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by ActionHank »

mrkramer wrote: post #207
ActionHank wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when most organizations only supported IE for their websites, then in some orgs it later became a requirement for working with legacy webapps. A secure browser was never a concern.

>A secure browser was never a concern. Because majority of malware if not all was written for PCs. Nowadays still most of the malware targets PCs but now attacks targeting web users are more prevalent. Attackers attack through compromised websites or phishing websites using social engineering techniques or exploit kits[0]. Websites are dominant attack surface not web browsers because it is hard to find 0-day exploits…

I would wager that if you asked corporations which was more important, knowing what their staff are doing online during work hours vs ensuring that their browser is hardened, they would choose to spy on their employees.

My point is this is coded language to give corporations an excuse to have another foothold on their employee's data.

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Post by aiiizzz »

jonas21 wrote: post #411
Pfhortune wrote: post #236

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 to…

If going from a product with miniscule market share and no revenue to a $610M exit is a tragic unforced downfall, I really need to start failing more.

Failing upwards in a nutshell

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Post by apwell23 »

ghiculescu wrote: post #475
blackqueeriroh wrote: post #467

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Which products have ton to Atlassian to die?

Hipchat RIP

Brings back so many memories. I bought TEAM stock at $17 when they bought hipchat.

turned out to be a nice investment even though they killed the product.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by makeitdouble »

blackqueeriroh wrote: post #463
makeitdouble wrote: post #394

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Did any Atlassian product ever make JIRA less annoying ? My impression was JiRA is the planet and everything else are satellites turning around. They come and go but never touch JIRA.

yeah, lots of them. Every day. All the time. But you’d have to learn to understand that most of the problem you have with Jira has nothing to do with the tool and everything to do with how it’s been implemented.

I beg to differ. Jira can be used in a sensible way, but that absolutely not how the tool is pitched nor how it guides user and companies. I'd compare it to giving users a 30 tools swiss army knife when all they should be using is the + driver and the scissors.

The issue being that teams that have that maturity don't need to kitchen sink in the first place and will be combining their own selected tools. That's how so many teams can get by with Notion and Gitlab only.

I spent more than a decade in JIRA and the Atlassian suite and can't think of any synergy that I miss TBH. Confluence in particular was fine for the time but does it stand the current competition ?

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Post by neodymiumphish »

rkomorn wrote: post #454
neodymiumphish wrote: post #392

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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?

No, I only use my powers for good.

And your dog wants pets and treats.

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Post by tombert »

rglynn wrote: post #459
tombert wrote: post #437

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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?

I don’t think I’ve used Linear, I hadn’t heard of it until just now.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by naravara »

Nextgrid wrote: post #342
naravara wrote: post #320

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I know distilleries will often contract with one or more other distilleries to create a custom blended whisky to sell under their label to get some revenue while they wait for their first batches to mature. There are distilleries that basically specialize in doing this. I assume the wine market probably has similar strategies. I know 3 buck chuck basically started like this, buying overstock from other vineyards and…

Out of curiosity, why would a company help out their future competitor?

You might be good at making whisky but not that great at marketing. Either way the market has a desire for generic, unlabeled product and people go in to fill the need.
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