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Re:How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and ... by xoa on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:32PM (#28384565)
Thank you for sharing, and agreed it's a really sad situation. What an absolute total waste on a variety of fronts, from the engineering to the community. I'm only on the outside looking in as a small (<$100k) customer, though I've seen other ex-UBNT engineers comment over the last few years too. From the operator side it's been really painful watching so much promise and such a great community wither, not merely in a slow fashion but with actively hostile measures like nuking the forums and what minimal bug/feature tracking we had in favor of the horrible new-web thing they've got now. So much lost just there. And literally just nothing to be done. Last I checked Pera owned a super majority of the stock and had a tiny compliant board, so there isn't even any hope of shareholder intervention. Pressure from the financial side is a really lagging indicator in networking due to what a irreversible tipping point type of movement function customers have.

What a shame. Thanks though for your own small part in doing something pretty special. If nothing else Edge/airMax/airFiber/UniFi opened a lot of our eyes to what SMB networking could be vs abominations like old Cisco.

Re:How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and ... by walrus01 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:21PM (#28387226)
> Last I checked Pera owned a super majority of the stock

I think everyone should be worried when a company founder/CEO of a tech firm starts doing silly stuff like going out and buying a professional basketball team. That's never a good sign.