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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by hbn »

al_borland wrote: post #58

I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…

Hey, give them a break. Arc is like... 2 years old. You can't expect anyone to maintain legacy code THAT OLD!

That's like 17 hot new frameworks out of date!

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by dtagames »

DanielHB wrote: post #48
dtagames wrote: post #5

This is so strange. How would Atlassian convince their enterprise customers to switch browsers? That seems really unlikely, and unnecessary. The main feature being touted is the ability to take context from multiple tabs and ... do something with it? So unconstrained access to what you're doing in multiple tabs feeding into exactly what and why ? The announcement is concerning because it mentions "AI skills" which ar…

They bought Trello as well, I haven't used Atlassian stuff in like 3 years but as far as I remember it didn't really work out well inside Jira.

They recently decided to destroy Trello, too. They bought it because it was a legit alternative to Jira for small teams and basically left it alone after the acquisition. But recently they've decided that it's too much of an alternative so it had to be crippled to remove the team features, turning it into a personal information manager that no one asked for.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by jimmydoe »

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.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by julianozen »

hbn wrote: post #71
al_borland wrote: post #58

I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…

Hey, give them a break. Arc is like... 2 years old. You can't expect anyone to maintain legacy code THAT OLD! That's like 17 hot new frameworks out of date!

I've been using it for 4 years!

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by julianozen »

Lots of respect to Josh Miller, the CEO. TBC got to a difficult place. They built a product that was very very good, but evidently not good enough to support the capital they raised or the workforce they hired.

I wish they had managed to keep Arc around. It's a product I'd glad pay for, and it seems like maybe there are enough fans that subscriptions could've supported a smaller team. Hopefully Atlassian doesn't kill it after 5 months

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by DanielHB »

dtagames wrote: post #72
DanielHB wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They bought Trello as well, I haven't used Atlassian stuff in like 3 years but as far as I remember it didn't really work out well inside Jira.

They recently decided to destroy Trello, too. They bought it because it was a legit alternative to Jira for small teams and basically left it alone after the acquisition. But recently they've decided that it's too much of an alternative so it had to be crippled to remove the team features, turning it into a personal information manager that no one asked for.

Luckily they didn't buy Linear, if anything they removed an early-competitor for them.

Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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Post by drzaiusx11 »

bargainbin wrote: post #50
threetonesun wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think I was suggesting you build your own Chromium so much as do what all these other browser projects do and fork it. The "software A got too bloated so we released software B" cycle is eternal but I'm optimistic it's moving even closer to the actual user than it has been in a while.

Anecdotally the company I work for is scuppered by bureaucracy when it comes to getting tools to work with, yet they want us to work at unhindered startup. We’ve found it’s actually quicker to just recreate the app (Postman, Obsidian, Claude desktop) than it is to go through the rigmarole of getting the download/license approved.

And now you have to maintain all those tool clones! Seems like a losing battle and waste of resources to me. This is just not-invented-here syndrome wearing a different sweater
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