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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by Touche on Thursday February 11, 2016 @08:56AM (#11080089)
> I've been a daily soundcloud user for almost 6 years. At some point they gave up on trying to change or improve the user experience.

Yeah, probably at the point when they started hemorrhaging money. Why do people expect a company that is dying to focus on UI improvements? Like any other business in the world, their focus is on staying alive.

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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by detaro on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:21AM (#11080241)
How do developers focus on "staying alive" if not by making the product better (or leaving)? I'd expect that the architecture issues of growing larger have mostly been solved by now.
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Re:SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses by Touche on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:41AM (#11080356)
They probably work on things that help bring in more paying customers. UI tweaks isn't among those things. I'm betting they have a whole analytics team, for example.
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