@crashglasshouses @rysiek important exceptions:

if you have control over others' compensation, the org can prohibit you from discussing your own

the org can prohibit you from discussing *other people's* compensation without their consent

But aside from those? YES, talk about compensation. Being quiet about it generally only benefits your employer

@robby @alcinnz The user is always right, but not always in the way they think they are

This was a super important lesson for me: valuing users well often means doing much more work than just implementing whatever they ask for

@lnxw37b3 that’s a flawed analysis because you’re thinking either/or. It’s additive. By going a place with an established, large audience, they _add_ that audience. They lose essentially no one except a few sticks in the mud. How’s that not a win?

So far the only argument I hear is a bit of “I don’t like it” combined with “specialization is bad”. It’s not like they picked a walled garden

@alcinnz @theruran @clacke

@lnxw37b3 there are whole communities of people organized around Flickr, and people who use Flickr in much the same way as they use Facebook. So NASA gets those people, has easy hooks into their social media presence through Flickr's integrations, and still makes it easy to get to the album's from NASA.gov

Explain to me how you imagine this to be worse for their objectives than them self-hosting the gallery

@alcinnz @theruran @clacke

@clacke @alcinnz @theruran it's not a question of ability, it's a question of attention. NASA doesn't just want to host images, they want people to go look at them. More people will do that on Flickr

I guarantee you they put more thought into this decision than you have. Just because you don't care about the same things doesn't make them foolish or incompetent

@theruran @alcinnz they CAN. But they're meeting the people where they are. The reality is that more people will see those images and be inspired if they're somewhere like flickr than if they're on nasa.gov; and probably easier to get people to manage such a thing, too — it's easier to find people who know how to use flickr than people who know whatever self-host tool they use