[HN Gopher] Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to t...
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       Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a
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       Author : aizk
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2026-01-25 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | sublinear wrote:
       | It's interesting to read this since the signals of demise are so
       | different in the broader corporate world.
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       | Vimeo sounds like it would have been better off as the basis for
       | a product or service division of a much larger business, not
       | undiversified and standing alone competing with social media. Why
       | was that not the obvious play to follow when they saw Google
       | buying YouTube? Seems like a lot of opportunities passed Vimeo by
       | over the decades.
        
       | ChrisGammell wrote:
       | I didn't realize the Bending Spoons acquisition was a second time
       | go-round. I do know after they enshittified (sorry, "harvested
       | called for the PE overlords") two other web properties I used and
       | loved back in the day (Evernote, Meetup), and thus I have an
       | unfortunate to-do list item to migrate my 1000+ video library
       | over to something else in 2026. Currently looking at Cloudflare
       | for the files and some kind of player on top.
       | 
       | Sigh.
        
         | izacus wrote:
         | They also took over Komoot and did the firings as well. Love
         | our PE friends, don't we?
        
       | bigstrat2003 wrote:
       | Ultimately, it sounds like the author's problems come down to
       | being at a business which was never profitable, nor had a plan to
       | become profitable, and thus doomed to failure. The whiplash he
       | experienced, the upper management turnover, all speak to repeated
       | desperate attempts to find _some_ way to make the business work.
        
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