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   May likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 04:09:18 JST May likes Toronto

   Bending Spoons just acquired Airtable.
   https://bendingspoons.com/

   Whoever does their messaging is pretty shit at it. Pretty hard to enshittify Airtable more than they've already gone, but if there's anyone who can do it... Just look at that list of companies purchased by Bending Spoons that used to be relevant.

   https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/bending-spoons-buy-airtable-steep-105538695.html

   I think it's important to keep an eye on the consolidation of assets in tech. A lot of personal information gets stored on Airtable.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 04:09:15 JST Rich Felker

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     @mayintoronto Me to them:

     "Improvements. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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     May likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 04:09:17 JST May likes Toronto

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     Vimeo shipped 30+ product improvements since acquisition!

     My eyes rolled out of my head. That stat means nothing.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 04:14:46 JST Rich Felker

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     @mayintoronto My general expectation whenever a company says they've made improvements to their service/app is that it's now slower, has klunkier UI, has new butthole icons all over the place, has more ads, etc.

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     May likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Aug-2026 04:14:48 JST May likes Toronto

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias They shipped 30 user stories since acquisition. Something like that. Half of it is rebranding and updating their copyright headers on their files.