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During the time that X was acquired by Elon:
Pebble / T2 (X competitor) shut down. (1)
Artifact (Another X competitor) shut down. (2)
Post.news is drastically losing traction with it's founder struggling to "kill X". (3)
Threads is faltering and lost over 75% of their daily active users since launch. (4) (5)
Spill is in invite limbo and many people lost interest.
Substack's competitor Notes didn't take off and people are moving away from the platform. (6)
Mastodon is still very hostile to non-tech folks, made no dent to X in user traction and still has major UX & discovery issues. (7)
Hive was a flash in the pan, turned off their servers and fell off with no roadmap. (8)
BlueSky is still stuck in invite limbo with no traction.
Clubhouse and Nostr aren't even on the map here.
All the while X is doing all the worst things possible to destroy their own platform, yet it is still up and running somehow and the X competitors imploded in the process.
If any other platform did what Elon has done they would have been dead a long time ago.
Why is Twitter / X not dead after all these months even when it is valued much less than what Elon purchased it for?
(1) https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/
(2) https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/instagram-co-founders-news-aggregation-startup-artifact-to-shut-down/
(3) https://themessenger.com/tech/why-is-it-so-damn-hard-to-kill-twitter
(4) https://fortune.com/2023/08/04/threads-traffic-spiral-down-82-percent-launch-month-mark-zuckerberg/
(5) https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-app-decrease-daily-active-users-mark-zuckerberg-2023/
(6) https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/
(7) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media
(8) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/
Perhaps it's too boring to be profitable and instead do a loss making speedrun. (e.g. raise money from VCs, hype the raise on TechCrunch, burn the money entirely on hiring too much and layoff employees down the line, rinse and repeat) à la Fast, Coinbase, etc.
When could we expect dark mode natively on HN? I prefer it to absolutely work without JS and no CSS hacks or trickery.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
Been looking to create a quick web app sometime in the new year and have been seeing recent posts on HN about Ruby on Rails (now that 7 has released) and Django 4 as well. I've also seen similar praise for Phoenix as well.
I haven't seen the same love for micro web frameworks like Flask, Sinatra etc, but always seen the above 3 as bloated but not quite sure.
So as the title suggests, are micro web frameworks still a good fit? What are your thoughts on this and how is the ecosystem around this?
Bonus if you are using them.