When they said Reddit has 2000 employees I was shocked. what could they possibly do onto a website that is basically run by users (and sysadmins) and that is basically feature-wise mature? I really can’t figure out 2000 people working every day on Reddit… on what? just for a quick comparison, the whole IAmA was run by a single person (Victoria), so… what are they doing?

  • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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    82 years ago

    I did all of the development for Sync myself. It blows my mind the mobile team is around ~200 people and ~70 on Android.

    • ConditionOverload
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      22 years ago

      And your app is still 100x better than theirs even with all their resources. To think the CEO gets pissed off that users prefer yours over theirs even though they have no reason to make an app that bad.

      • Corhen
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        32 years ago

        But he doesn’t have to add things like NFT and Avatar support… Which is promptly forgotten when the next big thing comes along.

    • @shapis@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      Wondering. Given a team of 50 people. Do you think your app would have been better or worse ?

      • Ljdawson (Sync dev)
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        32 years ago

        Probably worse. It’s the old software engineering Moto, nine women can’t have a baby in one month

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      2 years ago

      Have you ever worked in a corporate environment?

      It’s basically friction losses with occasional sparks of actual productivity.

      BTW: I’ve been using sync for years. I hope you can find a way to salvage some of your work.

        • AggressivelyPassive
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          02 years ago

          If I may ask so frankly: do/did you live completely off Sync or is that just a side project to you?

            • @drekly@lemmy.world
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              12 years ago

              Say I’d been learning js, jsnode, python, CSS, HTML for years without aim other than messing around.

              And I wanted to make sync.

              Where should I be directing my learning?