Timeline for answer to No, I do not believe this is the end by Lundin
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| Jan 23 at 8:00 | comment | added | Lundin | @starball This is literally a platform for programmers and web designers, who has been potty-trained by the site design to down vote. And I'm done with good faith of this company since many years ago. So if they are doing a poor job, it will get called out. They are doing a poor job. If it was just a bug here and there nobody would raise an eyebrow but if literally every new feature is subpar, there is some big systematic problem within the corporation, not necessarily related to everyone leaving the site, but happening at the very same time. Pretending that it ain't there won't fix it. | |
| Jan 23 at 7:41 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | @starball well also culture - both within the company (which went from dev/community first, to one that was more focused on marketing a SAAS product or two, and more corporateish. Certain competencies were lost, or de-emphasised. And sometimes these are difficult to bootstrap, or not everyone believes they're important. I'm not saying folks are incompetent, but people competent in 'soft' skills of certain sorts are generally rare, and not really appreciated as much as they should be. | |
| Jan 23 at 4:43 | comment | added | starball Mod | I assume retention of corporate knowledge suffers from the layoffs, and I get the feeling that for all the things/experiments the company is trying to do, there's a lack of human resources. I think particularly given these two things, (even though I'd love to see more of the other things I listed above,) it's unfair and unjustly harsh towards current staff to indirectly say all the competent staff are gone. | |
| Jan 23 at 4:42 | comment | added | starball Mod | I think the general/blanket indirect statement that current staff aren't competent is uncalled for. It's not constructive, or entirely fair. why do you assume these are due to a lack of skill? from my perspective, I see gaps in understanding of 'product" (the public platform), lack of dogfooding (and sometimes apparent lack of testing), lack of presence in day to day community activity and discussion (until there are concerns about what we're doing), and lack of interest (whoever makes the calls) in working on things past MVP. | |
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| Jan 23 at 2:13 | history | edited | blackgreenMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 22 at 15:37 | comment | added | l4mpi | @Lundin being able to produce replies that look "reasonable" does not exactly change my mind here - even LLM chatbots can do that nowadays. And from an outside perspective it's impossible to say if SE operates in the dysfunctional way you describe, but if it does this is also a failing of Prashant as the CEO. And the topics you mention that were "set in motion" by the AMA are the same you rightly complain about as being badly implemented, so if more discussions with Prashant results in yet more badly implemented "experiments" I'm not in favour. | |
| Jan 22 at 15:30 | comment | added | Sayse | This sort of is my feelings on this whole post, kudos to Bella articulating their thoughts but its a bit futile when those above are less interested/able | |
| Jan 22 at 12:27 | comment | added | Lundin | Specifically this is what set everything in motion: the opinion-based questions/Discussions revamp, the chat experiments, site design changes etc etc. As is expected with US-based company culture, very hierarchical and everything goes from the top down, with nobody in the middle allowed to think or use their own judgement. That's a very dysfunctional way to run a company, but that's another story... | |
| Jan 22 at 12:20 | comment | added | Lundin | @l4mpi He was quite reasonable when you got a chance to speak with him in comments through meta - that's a different person than the one who writes the various marketing buzzword bingo blog posts. The point is that after the "ask me anything" meeting, things were actually starting to happen. Unlike the hundreds of posts where we give feedback to CMs or middle management: they clearly don't have the influence to make the feedback happen anyway, should they even listen to it. We tried that literally hundreds of times: it does not work, huge waste of everyone's time. | |
| Jan 22 at 10:22 | history | answered | Lundin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |