Letter to Arc members 2025
AI summary of the linked articleThe Browser Company is shifting from Arc to Dia, a new AI-native browser, because Arc fell short of its goal of reaching mass-market users. Only 5.52% of daily active users regularly used more than one Space in Arc, and 0.4% used Calendar Preview on Hover, while 40% of daily active users use chatting with tabs in Dia. The company says it has stopped actively building new Arc features but still maintains it with Chromium upgrades and security fixes. Arc will not be open sourced yet, because its Arc Development Kit (ADK), which also underpins Dia, remains core to the company's value. |
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10 comments Does not surprise me. Used Arc for some time but it fell short in all kinds of ways. Nice try ;) Adding to that, i think we don’t need another Chromium clone browser. Especially now also Mozilla is not delivering. We need new stuff. Interesting for example is Orion building on WebKit for Mac and now coming with a Linux native version.  One of the main points why I'm still using Arc is the easy integration of Perplexity and ChatGPT. So I have hopes for Dia.  Hope they bring the best parts of Arc into Dia. I don’t think I can go back to a regular browser.  timSubmitter Haha sorry I‘m kinda done with Firefox. I tried using it in earnest for a really long time and it just don‘t deserve more users because it‘s slow If there is still a knowledge gap, here is now a video showing dia in action |