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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by takeda on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:58PM (#23305380)
I don't have an account there, and didn't even know about them a week ago, but based on what people posted I don't understand the drama.

They want to make profiles pubic, like LinkedIn. The public profiles only contain subset of information from actual profile. Their FAQ page says that you can enable/disable sharing of your profile. They sent email to their users announcing the change and giving plenty of time to change settings.

I don't see how could they do better than that.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by RandomBacon on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:04PM (#23305427)
Explanations in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837

Synopsis IIRC: Dark paterns, requiring ID to close account, 30 days to close account (and they quietly cancel the request if you log in), only 7 days notice, no permanent opt-out.

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Re:Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology by takeda on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:28PM (#23306585)
Ah, had no idea, thanks for explaining.

So the real issue are those dark patterns, not that much making profiles public. If they would execute it right, I think majority of people wouldn't have problems with it.

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