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Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by simlevesque on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:00PM (#46529913)
Ethically
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by simonw on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:01PM (#46529930)
What's the ethically bad thing Tailwind did here? Not merging that pull request?
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by simlevesque on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:05PM (#46530003)
I'd feel lied to if someone offers me a free tool and later the person that controls it chooses to make it worse just to make more money.

I got bit by that many times and do my best to avoid it but when it happens it's a stab in the back.

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by roblabla on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:25PM (#46530344)
At what point did they make it _worse_? Tailwind didn't remove any existing functionality here. What they did was refuse to merge a PR while they're trying to figure out how to navigate a difficult financial problem, all while being fully transparent about what's going on, and saying that they're open to merging the PR if/when they manage to get things together.

This is very different from, say, the minio situation, where they were actively removing feature before finally closing development down entirely. Whether tailwind will end up going down this route, time will tell. But as of right now, I find this reading to be quite uncharitable.

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by FootballMuse on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:39PM (#46531419)
It's not even funcationality to the library code, it's a PR to their docs. If you just want optimized docs for your LLM to consume, isn't that what [Context7](https://context7.com/websites/tailwindcss) already has? Why force this new responsibility to the maintainer.
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by ksec on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:41PM (#46531449)
So which part did he make it worst?

By not adding an extra "feature" you deemed as essential?

Even more surprising is this is from an 2012 account.

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by Twirrim on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:31PM (#46531303)
How, exactly, have they made Tailwind worse just to make more money? Point to specifics, please.
Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by doganugurlu on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:23PM (#46531196)
Did they send you an email or call you? I doubt it.

You found their homepage. You found that they didn’t ask for money, and allowed you to use their product for free. You decided to use it.

And now, they’re liars. How dare they try to make money?

Re:Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team by gervwyk on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @04:26PM (#46533117)
Please let us know if you launch this open source project, we’d all be excited to use it!