our revenue is down close to 80%

oof. that's not something very many groups come back from. losing that much of their business and team, the project is on life support.

There's a whole lot of entitlement going on in that thread.

If the maintainers didn't want to merge it because they had bigger issues to worry about, that's that. Whining about it and trying to pressure them with prospects of "becoming obsolete [if you don't merge this]" isn't going to make a convincing argument.

They should either shut the fuck up and learn to RTFM, or maybe consider putting their money where their mouths are by actually paying to support the projects they seem to so desperately think they have a right to influence the direction of.

hmm laying of %75 of the team unfortunately sounds like tying up any remaining businesses before closing down

The fucking ai degenerates in there ahaha, fuck off the lot of you.

A comment late in the thread says none of the LLMs even use the PR-suggested llms.txt.

At first I thought it was the creators of Thailand.

I feel dumber after reading that thread.

I'm not even sure. From a LLM standpoint that's even a good idea. From all my research on getting good output context matters. So if you throw too much junk in the middle it'll get evens stupider then it already is

Sounds like Tailwind is facing some headwinds.

I'll see myself out.

What a shit show of a thread lol.

What's Tailwind?

That sounds too loud, what’s the actual meaning behind what they’re saying? To me, that looks like maybe they hired too many people assuming their business would only grow. That’s the delusion some Silicon Valley folks have, with the sort of VC culture. Perhaps they shouldn’t grow in employees (why are there employees in the first place?) and try to be sustainable instead. The whole project looks so flashy, but does it even need to grow?

And, forgot to add: what is 75% of employees? Were they tens? Were they a hundred? (Sounds absurd to me, but who knows.)

Edit: according to this HN comment, they fired 3 developers out of 4.

On a personal note, I’m not a fan. I used it in a couple of projects, and wasn’t sold on the idea of never ever learning CSS and make your classes not semantic at all. However, I think there might be cases where this approach makes sense. I just haven’t found it so far.

They say because of AI people stopped visiting their page and now they can't sell them other services. I've been using tailwind for some time and I have no idea what other services they offer besides some component library. There are so many free alternatives that I never even considered checking it out. I think their business model is that that great to begin with and AI doesn't have much to do with it.

google ai studio is now sponsoring them so the slop can continue
https://xcancel.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902

thank goodness tailwind is pretty useless with new css tech. I'll keep on stickin with css :) It just wasn't a good idea, and certainly not valuable imo

300 bucks for one "license"? I'm starting to understand the "get fucked" comment guy.

Tailwind : I can't believe it's not CSS ! Now with hallucinations !

Looks like I’m sticking with bootstrap then