@jawshoeadan
Did you see that in an old blog post they said “we prioritize feel over numbers” then completely 180d on it
@ChrisHaupt
"He is an asshole and he gets away with it because he talks really nice" Kind of the opposite of Theo then. Used to hate this channel until I realized he just talks like an asshole, but is quite genuine.
@willpayne1238
Cosplaying as CEO is such a good take
@CaffeineForCode
Theo, you're so right about burning bridges. I even got my non-techie wife to switch to Arc. When I told her yesterday that they were discontinuing it, she said "Why'd you tell me to use this?"
@Slashscreen
what a load of horse piss. not only did I make the switch, I look like an idiot for making my friends try it. Thank god for Zen for picking up the mantle.
@arpitsahay18
Imma be real chat, I did found about Arc from theo
@johndavidson8096
So Dia is just chrome with a built-in AI chat? How revolutionary 😂
@anywho4264
41:58 the fact that the ai "summary" thing is longer than the webpage itself 💀💀💀
@Avenger19111
The weird thing about "The Browser Company" is that they have built Chromium Wrappers and not original browser engine. Also, Google killed Dia & the browser company by introducing Gemini in Chrome even before Dia left Alpha..
@ABC123486354
Started on Firefox, moved to Arc because of your video, then found about Zen and things are awesome now. Before then, I didn't realise a browser could actually ship useful, non-dev features
@xSil3nt27
why would anyone use Dia long term when they're just gonna abandon it for another buzzword a few months later
@MommysGoodPuppy
Dia will absolutely be a repeat of Arc, Josh is still not accepting the truth
@KaranSethia24
ohh no!! a vc funded company did exactly what their user base didnt want them to, what a f-ing surprise
@cfuendev
Never believed in Arc. The moment Zen had the right momentum as an open-source (Not money hungry, privacy-sensible), user-centered (Focus on customizability, privacy and QoL from the get-go) Firefox fork that is very much the same thing as Arc.. I fully embraced it. Haven't regreted it
@p3ter408
It's almost like they never cared about the browser 💔🥀
@enricotartarotti
2 weeks ago I made a video called "Why do Things Get Worse When They Get Popular" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQLVgmhgtpQ) . Arc was the first example I gave. I have been an avid user since 2022, feels really bad to see one of my favorite products abandoned like this, especially for going an building the most lazy AI design pattern ever: "Thing X, but with a Chatbot now"
@haxk_not_hacks
"Most people haven't noticed we stopped actively building new features" Horseshit??? Especially if you're a windows user. All those features he mentioned that only 04% of the base actually used? All but one are absent on windows. What do you expect?? I don't know what Arc's OS distribution is like, but I feel like it's not out of the realm of possibility to make the assumption that bc Windows has a majority market share, it's possible that there are more Arc on Windows users (or were at least) during the year long period it was actually receiving feature updates, and parity was NEVER achieved. Idk I can't speak for other users but I was PAINFULLY aware when they started adding nothing but Chromium updates in their patch notes.
@thatbberg
The cosplaying part is so real. It always felt like they cared more about being a cool famous startup than creating a product worthy of being famous.
@ArtificialDumbnes
i actually thought a new AI coding agent just dropped and its over with AI for developers now lol
@cubed.public