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graham
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I generally don't publicly talk about my employment while I'm working there, but I was affected by this. If y'all know any full stack engineering openings that are generally aligned with any/all of cohost's principles, feel free to reach out.

I had been trying to work to make things better from the inside, but I simply ran out of time, I guess

Edit: Some good to go with the bad -- my greatest achievement at Discord was that I was the person who hand-picked all the default sounds for soundboard. I was the one who added a dedicated quack button.

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I was just thinking about how I wished we had successfully organized a union in my time there this morning while reading through the folks I knew at Twitch who were laid off

Until working conditions change, I don't see any end in sight for these yearly lay-off trends in tech

I just saw this news elsewhere and thought "I hope graham's ok" and then opened Cohost and well shit. I'm sorry man. Good luck and I'll keep an eye out, it's rough out here these days.

oh my god i use the quack button so much. VCs make me pretty nervous so i pretty much use it to communicate sometimes.
anyway i'm really sorry to hear this, i'm sure whatever comes next will be better!!

That really sucks and I hope you can find something you enjoy soon! Also I use the quack button almost every time at the start of a video call with my best friend to annoy her :eggbug-uwu: never gets old

Unfortunately, this all happened while I was traveling for a friend's bachelor party, and I have a new year's resolution to wean myself off of sketch in favor of Affinity so that I can stop making resumes and stuff on my work Mac laptop (among other reasons). I'm going to take most of the rest of the month to relax and then I'll update my resume in February, I think

So sorry you were laid off. I hope you have good luck finding something. Unrestrained capitalism surely is a lot of fun to live in.

P.S. I got a Stream Deck recently and am having a lot of fun with the Discord soundboard. Thanks for the noises <3

Nice! I'm glad you enjoy it. I was also the puppetmaster behind that partnership becoming a publicly available thing, haha. I put the PM on Soundboard in touch with the guy who was doing merch relations at just the right time for them to work together with Elgato to make it happen :host-joy:

graham can i ask you a question that you can answer without prejudice now that you dont work there anymore. i havent updated my discord mobile app since 2021 is this bad. thx

As someone who's been somewhat of a 'believer' since I started using Discord in 2016, this sucks and it's just one more thing on the list of trust-eroding things. I hope you don't stay out of a job too long and you manage to find someplace you're happy with.

Oh, and, thank you for the quack button, by the way.

So sorry to hear this, my heart breaks down whenever I hear layoff - yours hits hard as Discord is my primary messenger/chat tool and where I was able to relieve my stress the most. Really wishing for you for things to turn around for the better again. 🍀