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No, not every HN thread, but "Every Google product".
This is an entirely valid concern borne out by history. Until Google goes to extraordinary measures to prove that it will be unusually long-lived, you should assume that it will be dead in a few years.
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
but obviously that wouldn't be helpful for discussion or particularly insightful to spam, either.
It would be totally fair to ask an upstart DocuSign competitor about their wind-down process. The fact that I’m more confident they will have thought that through is the problem.
It doesn't really add to interesting/thoughtful discussion in the spirit of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Particularly:
> Don't be snarky. Converse curiously
> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.
These subthreads never really go anywhere, other than fan the flames of Google hate.
Again, not necessarily saying they're not warranted, but for folks looking for interesting discussion, it can certainly add noise to the signal.
Let's see the moment when Google launches Twitter-bis. It's a matter of time before it's done.
Sigh. Every Google product.