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The #1 excuse people use. They do more than just DNS, they deliver the actual data, that would have been delivered by the original host, to visitors. So I'd consider them hosting an automatically updated mirror, and as bad as the original host.
"HR serves to protect the company"
That point comes up every time a bad-HR related post is placed here. However, isn't it very short sighted to consider silencing/removing the accusers a protection of the company. This results in a bad culture and bad PR about that culture in developer circles.
Won't the reduced diversity and all that comes with it have bad effect on the company long term?I don't think users care about the freedom to choose the UX. They just want a good UX and that's it.
> Slack in turn fails to provide a decent mobile experience.
According the ratings of app stores, users are pretty happy with them.
> PGP has been around in the XMPP community for several years but is currently being reworked into a more modern extension called XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging that promises to make the onboarding easier for novice users.
I don't get how something OpenPGP will make onboarding any easier for XMPP. New XMPP users who might have an automatically generated account somewhere, still start with an empty contact list. Onboarding is definitely the key issue for mobile XMPP.
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