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  • Truthfully, it was an AI slop and I don't even know how Mozilla couldn't see that, it didn't even make sense commercially speaking knowing that close to all competitors were doing better already.

    It seemed like the "plan" wasn't even really thought for the next year or two, it was just some sort of experiment which is useless commercially speaking, no one expect "experiments" from major companies like Mozilla, they expect real products that is competitive and works for the years to come.

    There is no "experiment" to make anymore, era of MVP is mostly dead since years, only well-thought and durable projects will succeed, getting a few thousand signup doesn't prove anything anymore, it just proves that those customers just weren't aware of the more advanced competition thus will get swallowed anytime soon.

    by pixel_popping
  • I don’t understand why Mozilla keeps doing these odd projects. They maintain the only real alternative browser stack to Chrome and rather than keep it up to date and triage bugs, so many resources keep flowing into random AI hype crapware that no one asked for.
    by devmor
  • An organization that has lost most of its relevance has shut down a product I've never heard of. This is top of HN?
    by tjwebbnorfolk
  • Since time has come for cutting the fat on initiatives like this website creator. I think other initiatives has gone under the ground, and companies have not answered to why they're cutting those initiatives. In job postings equality suddenly is not as prioritized, and if they are, what i hear it is not prioritized during interview rounds.

    Who has to answer for these expenditures?

    by martinjc
  • I just remembered I created a website via Solo when it was released a couple years ago: https://soloist.ai/amarkota

    Please note the Reviews are auto-generated

    by hbcondo714
  • Mozilla will do anything but work through the decades old backlog on Bugzilla.
    by xacky
  • Mozilla will be studied in the future. It's actually a masterful act from Google on how to stifle the competition and protect your bottomline.

    Really, really wish that Mozilla just shuts down, so that the FOSS community can turn their attention to an actual, intentionally competitive alternative. Would love to see Canonical or similar lead the way here.

    by someotherperson
  • I don't even know what this is, but I must say, AI features don't seem to be improving the web experience, so anything AI related is usually not worth keeping (as far as I know, maybe there is something I haven't considered).

    Mozilla seems to be going down a lot of rather futile side-paths, if you know what I mean. Nobody asked for this? Just make Firefox a better browser, work on the web standards I guess, do the things people actually need.

    by eliasebner

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