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Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by lloydatkinson on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:32AM (#25315254)
I was using it but it was very unreliable in my experience. The PWA app you can install on your phone would work for a few days and just appear to stop working until you reinstalled it. Then with Mozilla firing devs including the devs who work on their core product (Firefox/Browser Engine) and then spinning WebThings out into it's own thing, I have decided to stop using it because I don't believe it has much of a future because the management appears to have gone off the rails.

I will reevaluate it in a year, if it still exists, because it's actually a pretty nice platform to use.

Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by dblohm7 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:22PM (#25320454)
> including the devs who work on their core product (Firefox/Browser Engine)

Ummm, no, in general those were the devs who weren’t laid off. (I am a Mozilla employee)

Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by bigums on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:31PM (#25320504)
Didn’t the Firefox DevTools team get pretty hard with layoffs?
Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by dblohm7 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:17AM (#25321781)
They did, unfortunately. But the rest of the Firefox group was left mostly intact.
Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by lloydatkinson on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:26AM (#25323347)
I consider the Rust based browser engine a core part of that, and they were fired, so my statement isn't incorrect.
Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0 by dblohm7 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:29PM (#25325965)
Organizationally they were part of the Emerging Technologies Group, not the Firefox Group.

And contrary to popular belief, there were no plans to replace Gecko with Servo wholesale, so I don’t really think it is accurate to think of it as “core” to Firefox.