Fuck IPO imminent
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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What a lemon!!!
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
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I’m glad I’m too old to use Slack but for video games. I’d rather eat a bowl of hair than have more notifications.
Slack but for video games
Lol when introducing new employees to Slack who haven't used it before I always say "It's Discord, but for work" haha
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Wait, there's actually humans working at Discord? I thought the entire thing was run by bots.
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We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it's gonna get real shitty, real fast.
I already left, enjoy it for me.
This is them going into IPO mode.
Matrix is a reasonable replacement.
Sorry, what is a IPO ?
Initial Public Offering.
Its where a company offers stock for public sale, and gets listed on the stock market.
Generally this corresponds with a company pushing hard to maximize profits over other metrics like user growth.
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I feel like it's been shitty for a decade.. personal view though, clearly people like it
Edit: well, for almost 10 years, maybe 9.
Same boat as many Gapps like Google Maps. No large market competitor to show users how much better it can be.
Google Maps
Edit: one interesting thing about their mobile app is when you use the GPS for directions, it changes where the audio comes from depending on what your next direction is. If your next is "turn left" then the instructions come from your left-side car audio.
clearly people like it
It's the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.
The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.
Yess, thank you. Ugly, slow, frustrating. And pay to make it bearable...
Hold on, I’ve got 6 updates since you opened me an hour ago.
You can wait right?
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A bitter end for this lemon.
Is it really bitter if IPO is successful? Citron and other cofounders likely setup to get a massive payout when it IPOs.
Humam isn’t someone that will look after the company for many years. He is brought in to cook the books, and get it to an IPO.
Citron means lemon in various languages.
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