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A rant on products without purpose (fasterandworse.com)
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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

just learned GitLab has a wiki editor.

And it's had it at least since 2017, which is before anyone has even heard of Notion.

Selling shit you can have for free, the closed-source business story.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

what notion is selling is hosting

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago

this is funny to me because it took Notion until late 2021 to introduce simple, non-database tables (since the database tables were often large, unwieldy, and introduced way too much overhead to just write a simple rows-and-columns spreadsheet, something that's been a thing in GitHub Flavored Markdown since at least 2009