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Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday by randomsc on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:25PM (#46708646)
Probably they will also fire remaining 15 people and move everything to Italy.

Their strategy is to

- fire everyone,

- give product to very small but ambitious team of people

- cut free version of the product to minimum even if does not make a sense to have a free version such as 5 video upload per month etc (they are doing this just to avoid backlash from users and community)

- use every possible dark pattern exist to get every penny from the users

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Re:Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday by worldsavior on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:33AM (#46730835)
I'll be surprised if those engineers don't want to leave the company themselves after these layoffs.
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