Comment by omk

6 years ago

Hosting a web server on localhost is the equivalent of adding a backdoor on your customer's machines. How does a product team even reach this decision?

By being blind to the implications.

The most charitable interpretation of the Superhuman read-receipt problem is kinda the same thing: they had an idea, thought it was good, and then did some deeply shitty things to make it work. And nobody at Zoom or at Superhuman had the organizational power to stop it.