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Comment by azeirah | Hacker News Reader

OP is angry because it's a common occurrence for companies in similar situation to hide behind fluffy language, while OP has the goal to understand what's going on.

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If that's the goal, he should know (from the comments on this post, from comments on other shutdown posts in the 100 days he has been here, etc) that this is the kind of language a shutdown post has. It's nothing new.

This was one of the more sincere "our incredible journey" posts I've read since I started spending time on HN.

Agreed, I enjoyed it. It wasn't needlessly long and they said what they wanted to say. And I even feel a little bad they're shutting down, because Yik Yak seems like a pretty sincere company from the looks of their blog.

Eh dunno, sounded pretty fluffy to me. Dressing up the move to Square as some 'community' thing when it's likely simple pragmatism, and so on. (Though nowhere near as apparently rage-inducing the other guy found it lol.)

Can you show me an example of a goodbye post from a company that sounds less 'fluffy' than this?

There are plenty. Here's a few posted on HN:

RethinkDB was very straight forward: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

Wattage too: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/

Hackpad from a few days ago: https://hackpad.com/

The above make their intentions unmistakably clear in the first line.

Those were good. Thanks for sharing. My standards have been raised.

Why not turn that argument around to yourself?

You should know from ... the 1200+ days you've been around, the huge number of shut down notices in that time, the other posts here, and every single comment that's ever been made about how you should communicate with users, ... that the shutdown notice here isn't great.

> that the shutdown notice here isn't great.

That's your opinion. I disagree with it.

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