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		greentrust on Sept 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber lays off 435 people Ex-uber engineer here. Uber's chat app is based on Mattermost, not built from scratch.

johnnyfaehell on Sept 11, 2019 | [–]

From my experience that kinda makes it worse because constantly people will say "X has this now this add that" and it's normally a case of "Well that's a ton of work to do because we did Y".

jannes on Sept 11, 2019 | [–]

Does the fork stay current with upstream?

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