alt Hacker NewsMaybe I'm just naive but I don't really understand discontinuing things like this. Like, unless there are like 100 people using this, how can it not be possible to just leave this running at like 0.5% of its former capacity. Just leave up like 1 server, collapse all of the DBs into one, and let these few autists have their stuff.
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michelb • yesterday at 8:37 PM
It probably distracts from the AI race. With the newly bought political power it makes far more sense for Meta to align with whatever this administration seeks. And it’s not gaming or VR.
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FartyMcFarter • yesterday at 8:50 PM
There might be expensive non-technical maintenance required, such as checks for illegal user content.
At a minimum, the app needs updates to handle breakages caused by OS updates. It needs moderators and other staff for legal reasons since Meta is large enough that there's always a significant liability risk for even a few users. It needs to interact with the main non-VR app unless they want to fully isolate it. Etc.
When I was at Google, I had many of these discussions about cost tradeoffs for products that were https://killedbygoogle.com/