I used to be a devotee, but then they started cranking up the prices and endlessly tinkering with UI without enhancing functionality. I couldn’t agree more with your characterisation.

a good lesson for all who create things that wind up blowing up beyond your wildest dreams.

And here’s my requisite* plea to remember not to do this to micro.blog. Make money, sure — but don’t do it at the expense of the reasons for creating it in the first place.

• — this wasn’t in response to something in particular, I just wanted to express my gratitude and feelings for creating and sharing such a great platform and space in this manner.👍🏾

@manton didn't someone make an open source version of Evernote many, many years ago? I thought one of my classmates was using an open source version of it on Ubuntu back when I was an undergrad in 2007.

or am I getting Onenote and Evernote mixed up?

@starrwulfe Absolutely. I have a pretty clear idea of how big Micro.blog should be, and in some ways the founding principles will hold it back from ever getting too big or off course.

@ggpsv Interesting to hear about Notion. I haven’t kept up with it, but I could see how it might go too enterprise-y. (Doesn’t look like it’s there yet.)

Musicians are sometimes derided for “selling out,” yet when tech firms do this it’s somehow expected. It rarely ends well. How can we shift the culture so this sort of growing for growth’s sake is no longer acceptable?

@manton Honestly, at this point Apple’s Notes app does everything I need. Evernote ended up with lots of stuff I didn’t need.

@ggpsv @manton I have no idea, I may just be thinking that we all thought Evernote was great back then because it wasn't by Microsoft

@manton I’ll never forgive them for buying and then abandoning Skitch.

@froboy I remember literally upending a small tray table when I logged into Skitch and saw this had occurred all those years ago. It was my job to proof tech articles and create graphics for online courses— Skitch was my go-to. There wasn’t anything else for a while!