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Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo's right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don't have to worry about legal compliance... Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Other video hosting providers are available if it ever becomes a problem. I don't think they will loose much sleep over this.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What you lose is audience. People often aren't willing to replatform for a single creator.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Vimeo is the backend, not the platform.

[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

But they won't be asked to replatform. Dropout have their own website. Them changing service provider should be mostly invisible to consumers.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I'm sure it'll be noticeable, but Dropout could market it as a fancy new update/UI. Users definitely aren't going to have to migrate anywhere.