#bending-spoons — Public Fediverse posts

Eventbrite got Komooted.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bending-spoons-cuts-eventbrite-staff-rolls-out-product-changes-after-takeover-2026-04-13/

#enshittification #BendingSpoons

Rushes Is a New Creator-Focused Vimeo Alternative https://petapixel.com/2026/03/27/rushes-is-a-new-creator-focused-vimeo-alternative/ #bendingspoons #Websites #rushes #video #vimeo #News

Das #FuckYou des Monats geht raus an #BendingSpoons, den Software Entwicklern des #KI Support Bots und ans Management und die Investoren, die #Komoot gegen die Wand gefahren haben. Und jetzt alle miteinander 🎵 https://youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE

@kiki #BendingSpoons - die Heuschrecken der „netten“ Apps.

Was immer die in ihre gicht-verkrümmten Krallen bekommen wird ausgesaugt und bis zur Unnutzbarkeit verstümmelt.

#komoot erging es genau so.

Und natürlich werden Mitarbeitende „dem Arbeitsmarkt zugeführt“.

@finnmyrstad @pluralistic There is at least one company name to remember and run if they touch one of your products: bending spoons.
There may be more vulture funds trashing our beloved tools, but #BendingSpoons has a master plan and acquires services with lots of users to maximise the damage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons#Acquisitions
#Enshittification

Why is Komoot acquisition by Bending Spoons presented to be soooo bad?

Sure, they fired a lot of people. But if they managed to do that AND finally did a modern redesign and started finally adding new features AND they do it at much faster pace than before, then my question is, what those people were doing there in the first place?

Sure, asking to subscribe all the time might be a bit annoying, but what's more?

#komoot #bendingspoons #outdoor #hiking #justarandomthought

Das neuste Opfer dieser Strategie ist die Videostreaming-Plattform Vimeo. Wenige Monate nach der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons wurden weltweit Mitarbeiter entlassen. Wie Slashdot schreibt, handelt es sich dabei um grosse Teile des Unternehmens. Unter anderem soll das gesamte Video-Team abgebaut worden sein, auch in der IT-Entwicklungsabteilung wurden viele entlassen. Was dies für die Zukunft des Produkts an sich heisst, kann man sich leicht selber ausmalen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-billion-sale-to-bending-spoons-2026-1

@kottke #BendingSpoons - the undertaker of digital companies.

What do they do with all the user data they collect from #evernote #Komoot and #vimeo ?

Vimeo, jakie znaliśmy, właśnie przestało istnieć. Nowy właściciel zwolnił „większość załogi”, w tym cały zespół od wideo

Jeśli trzymasz swoje portfolio na Vimeo, zrób kopię zapasową. Natychmiast. Serwis, który przez dwie dekady był profesjonalną alternatywą dla YouTube’a, właśnie padł ofiarą brutalnej restrukturyzacji.

Nowy właściciel, fundusz Bending Spoons, zastosował swoją ulubioną taktykę: kupić, zwolnić, wycisnąć.

Rzeź wideo w serwisie wideo

Wiadomość brzmi jak ponury żart, ale niestety jest prawdziwa. Jak donosi Engadget i Business Insider, zaledwie kilka miesięcy po przejęciu Vimeo za 1,38 miliarda dolarów, firma Bending Spoons przeprowadziła masowe zwolnienia.

Pracownicy donoszą w mediach społecznościowych, że pracę straciła „większość firmy”. Najbardziej szokujący jest jednak szczegół ujawniony przez jednego z inżynierów: zwolniono cały zespół odpowiedzialny za technologię wideo. Tak, dobrze czytacie. Platforma hostingowa nie ma już ludzi, którzy rozwijają technologię hostowania.

„To smutne patrzeć, jak coś, co zbudowałem, jest zabijane przez private equity noszące skórę firmy technologicznej jako przebranie” – napisał jeden z byłych pracowników na serwisie X.

Metoda „na Bending Spoons”

Dla obserwatorów rynku tech to niestety żadne zaskoczenie. Włoska firma Bending Spoons (o ironicznej nazwie nawiązującej do Matrixa) w ostatnich latach stała się grabarzem lubianych narzędzi kreatywnych. Schemat zawsze jest ten sam:

• Evernote (2023): przejęcie, drastyczne podwyżki cen, zwolnienie niemal całej załogi w USA i przeniesienie szczątkowego rozwoju do Europy.
• WeTransfer (2024): przejęcie, natychmiastowe cięcia kadrowe (zwolniono 75% załogi).
• Vimeo (2026): scenariusz się powtarza.

Oficjalny komunikat rzecznika Bending Spoons brzmi jak korporacyjna nowomowa w najgorszym wydaniu: „Jesteśmy zaangażowani w rozwój Vimeo, aby spełniać potrzeby naszej zróżnicowanej bazy użytkowników”. Trudno uwierzyć w rozwój, gdy wyrzuca się ludzi, którzy ten produkt tworzą.

Co to oznacza dla Ciebie?

Vimeo przez lata było domem dla „high-endowego” kontentu. Brak reklam, świetny odtwarzacz, opcje prywatności – to przyciągało profesjonalistów. Dziś przyszłość platformy stoi pod znakiem zapytania. Z „wydmuszkową” załogą serwis pewnie będzie działał (serwery nie wybuchną jutro), ale można spodziewać się:

• Braku nowych funkcji.
• Pogorszenia supportu.
• Agresywnego monetyzowania użytkowników (jeszcze wyższe ceny subskrypcji).

Jeśli Twoja firma polega na Vimeo jako głównym archiwum wideo – czas poszukać alternatywy. Vimeo to już nie jest firma technologiczna. To arkusz w Excelu.

Jak korzystam ze Stage Managera w iPadOS, aby zmaksymalizować produktywność i skupienie

GOLEM: Teure Notizen-App: #Evernote-Nutzer mit massiven Preissteigerungen konfrontiert https://www.golem.de/news/teure-notizen-app-evernote-nutzer-mit-massiven-preissteigerungen-konfrontiert-2601-204498.html
„Wird nicht rechtzeitig widersprochen, drängt Evernote Privat- und Enterprise-Kunden automatisch in den jeweils teuersten Plan.“
#BendingSpoons = Saftladen.
#enshittification

Vimeo just lost most of its staff, including open source contributors: Italian conglomerate Bending Spoons eliminates substantial portion of workforce at acquired video platform following $1.38 billion September deal. https://ppc.land/vimeo-just-lost-most-of-its-staff-including-open-source-contributors/ #Vimeo #BendingSpoons #VideoPlatform #TechNews #OpenSource

Almost All of Vimeo Staff Laid Off After Acquisition by Bending Spoons https://petapixel.com/2026/01/23/almost-all-of-vimeo-staff-laid-off-after-acquisition-by-bending-spoons/ #bendingspoons #videosharing #Websites #industry #video #vimeo #News

Bending Spoons: Where apps go to find a peaceful afterlife – or a profitable second act. 🏛️

The "Netflix of App Developers" has built an empire by acquiring legacy tools like Evernote and Meetup. While some call it a cemetery for once-great software, others see a masterclass in monetization. They don't just buy apps; they gut the bloat and hike the prices. 📈

Is it a ruthless execution of business or the end of innovation? 🧐

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons

#BendingSpoons #TechStrategy #BusinessGrowth

I'm just so glad that I didn't decide to rely on vimeo for hosting my videos. I got aware of peertube just at the right time.

Besides that I really wonder how bending spoons manages to continue service when firing the staff. On the other hand, maybe the systems are just well developed and thus quite robust.

https://www.businessinsider.com/vimeo-laying-off-staff-after-billion-sale-to-bending-spoons-2026-1

#vimeo #BendingSpoons #peertube

@NatureMC @liaizon @peertube oh #BendingSpoons again

@Printdevil Indeed, they were bought out by private equity (Bending Spoons) end of last year.

#BendingSpoons are well-known for the #enshittification of companies in their portfolio. Their playbook is buy company → screw the employees (massive layoffs) → screw the customers (higher prices for a worse service) → vampirically suck all the value out for shareholders.

#Bikepacking gave a pretty good analysis after BS bought #Komoot last year:
https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

@martinsteiger
Always when I read the company's name #BendingSpoons I think of Uri Geller who tries to convince people it was some kind of magic energy of his mind while everybody knows it's just a cheap trick and you end up with two unusable, broken spoons.

So the name of the company leaves little room for surprises.

#Nalden, co-founder of #WeTransfer, is building #Boomerang, a #filetransfer service prioritising #simplicity and #userexperience. He criticises WeTransfer’s changes post-acquisition by #BendingSpoons, including unclear transfer link modifications, staff layoffs, and controversial AI model training. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/why-wetransfer-co-founder-is-building-another-file-transfer-service/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

@[email protected] @[email protected]

Ah cool. #wanderer kannte ich noch nicht. Muss ich mir unbedingt ansehen. Ich vermute aber, dass es da kaum Touren zu entdecken und sicher auch keine Funktion "ans GPS Gerät senden" gibt.

Allein die #Usability von #Komoot hat imho enorm gelitten:
Seit wann
a) werden einem bei gemachten Touren keine Untergrund Infos (Anteil an Singletrail etc.) mehr angezeigt?
b) kann man eine gemachte Tour nicht mehr ans Gerät senden/navigieren, ohne dass man daraus eine neue geplante Tour machen muss?
c) wird bei der Suche in der Liste der gefundenen Touren keine Vorschau in der Karte, sondern völlig uninformative Fotos angezeigt?

Komoot wird seit der Übernahme durch #BendingSpoons - Überraschung - schlechter statt besser.

🤷🤦🤡🤮🤮🤮

Gibt es eigentlich eine gehostete Variante von #mobilizon? #fediverse (will raus aus dem #BendingSpoons Universum)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ednl/115249909683238207

‪And there we have it: Vimeo now imposes a blanket age verification requirement in the whole of the UK+EU despite this not being necessary in the EU (unless <intricate specifics>).

#vimeo #bendingspoons

@StephanB @pasco11 I loved Komoot, but unfortunately it was taken over by #BendingSpoons so I'm looking for alternatives. #bikerouter looks promising, also https://cycle.travel

After Bending Spoons bought Evernote, you can safely mark 2022 as the product's date of death. They literally fired everyone who worked on it, killed the old non‑Electron app, raised prices to insane levels, and still pretend it's the same Evernote “we all knew” and even better.

Now they want $250/year just so I can keep my 5k+ notes accessible (the "Starter" plan doesn’t cut it). They even charge just to view your own notes. It’s absurd.

Recently they’ve also bought great products like Komoot, WeTransfer, and Issuu, and I bet they'll all face the same enshittification: mass layoffs of passionate teams and massive price hikes.

Evernote used to be a must‑have app - stable, powerful, and reliable (yes, not perfect).

Now it's a bloated ghost-app riding the AI hype while ignoring the basics that used to make it great.

Stay away from Evernote. Stay away from anything Bending Spoons touches. 
And if you want to feel what we've actually lost, watch Komoot’s farewell video - it's heartbreaking:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJkK4Wn1HI

#bendingspoons #evernote #thoughts #ai #komoot #evernote #app #notetaking #electron #internet #subscriptions #komoot

Evernote is forcing a decision on me

As a creature of app habit, I’ve kept paying for Evernote even as the rates for my note-taking app of choice have increased considerably–mainly because the new management at that service has improved it tremendously. But now that Evernote’s corporate parent Bending Spoons has discontinued my $129.99/year Personal plan and presented me with a choice between a $99.99/year Starter plan that seems clearly inadequate and a $249.99/year Advanced plan that brings more than I need, I need to rethink that habit.

That 92% rate increase itself requires reconsideration, but it’s not the only thing. There’s the odds of a company on a venture-capital-fueled spending spree that somehow incluces buying AOL will see fit to jack up the annual rate again; I also have to assess whether Evernote’s bosses might make it harder to take my data out of the app that I’ve used since 2010.

But looking over such other note-taking app options as OneNote, Joplin, and Notion while comparing their features, I don’t see an obvious escape pod.

These are my priorities in this indecision-making process, in rough order of descending importance:

• Cross-platform support–macOS, Windows, Android, iOS–is not negotiable, which is why I didn’t mention Apple Notes above.
• I need any other app to import my Evernote archives no less than one notebook at a time; that seems to rule out Microsoft’s OneNote, even though I pay for it as part of my Microsoft 365 subscription.
• I need reliable synchronization, ideally the almost real-time sync that Evernote now does so well. That may be the thing I need to trade to shave all or part of $250 a year from my online-services budget.
• Yearly cost below this year’s $129.99.
• Offline support, because I know how well CES WiFi works.
• Voice transcription for recording interviews, which I’ve come to rely on over the past year.
• Text recognition from a photo of a business card, so I can look up the details of somebody I met without adding them to my contacts list.
• Robust export options so I don’t get stuck in another company’s silo.
• The option of encrypting at least some notes on an end-to-end basis.
• A long-term focus from the app’s developers–why I don’t consider Google Keep, since Google introducing that a week after killiing Google Reader still leaves me with trust issues beyond my trying to reduce the number of single points of failure in my digital life.

Looking over this and comparing it to the research I’ve done so far, I think this makes me look like a Joplin user. Unless the lag that open-source app cites–the most frequent sync interval it allows for the OneDrive cloud storage I already pay for is every five minutes–instead makes me look like somebody who should suck up the extra cost of Evernote, considering what a small fraction it is of my other operating costs. 

I wish this choice were clearer. I also wish that I didn’t have to figure this out at the peak cognitive-load period of my year.

#appleNotes #bendingSpoons #crossPlatform #digitalBudget #evernote #google #googleKeep #joplin #microsoft #noteTakingApps #notesApps #notion #onenote #vendorLockIn

Après Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote… Eventbrite racheté par Bending Spoons pour 500 millions de dollar
https://mac4ever.com/193476
#Mac4Ever #bendingspoons #eventbrite

Bending Spoons, a company that's served over a billion people with its portfolio, is largely unknown but just acquired Eventbrite! It's wild how many tech giants operate under the radar. What other massive companies do you think we're all using without realizing?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/
#TechNews #MergersAndAcquisitions #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite #UnderTheRadar

Après Evernote, Vimeo, WeTransfer ou AOL, Bending Spoons se paye la billetterie Eventbrite http://dlvr.it/TPcFl8 #BendingSpoons #Eventbrite