Comment by bauerd
8 years ago
I think your company has a great product, but your shitty hashtag spamming surely won't make me adopt it.
8 years ago
I think your company has a great product, but your shitty hashtag spamming surely won't make me adopt it.
I completely agree. I am a happy Gitlab user. I think it is a great product. The CEO coming into this thread repeatedly pushing "#movingtogitlab" is a pretty tasteless move.
How is it tasteless? This has to be one of the most appropriate times/places for GitLab to promote itself.
Sure, but it was more the manner of the promotion itself that was off-putting. There was no substance to any of the comments saying why we should switch or why Gitlab isn't going to follow the exact same path and be purchased by Google in 6 months. Instead it was a gloating comment that came off like a vulture circling a sick animal.
At a guess, I'd say a classy and less tasteless move would be a nice post giving their view on this rumour, pointing out the benefits of Gitlab, and giving some background on any efforts that might be needed to scale up. I'm sure it would quite quickly be pushed up to the top of the list and be a useful resource for people who might not have known about it or what it does.
A sloganeering hashtag is basically the opposite of that.
It's a really bad look for the CEO of the company.
At it's core what is a hashtag even? It's means to amplify a "thing". It's a means to make it a thing.
That's why it's tasteless. It's a shameless means to use the opportunity to ride the wave of the event instead of being classy, taking a back seat for a while, and handling the obvious influx resulting from this.