I shouldn't be irrationally angry about a corp going under, but the people working there had some drive you just don't see these days.
HopperMCS
joined 2 years ago
I'm not gonna lie I miss skeumprphism from the 2000's, I know a lot of people thought it was tacky but it had more character than this flat, low-effort boring shit. This new flat stuff from the mid-2010's makes it look like these companies got halfway through product design and quit.
Sometimes I wonder if we're not being fair to RedHat, but then I remember at the same time they didn't go under in 2008 like Sun did, and they didn't take the hit many others did due to COVID.
What the article doesn't mention is just how much time the Fediverse has spent in its infancy, because the drive wasn't there for certain stuff and people only worked on what they cared to work on. Grassroots development, compared to the FB social graph and whatnot, which had paid employees working on it every day, while Jim spent his weekends in his basement tinlering with ActivityPub or OStatus.
Yeah, I think that would be a good way to start. It may exacerbate flamewars, however.