This is at least the second time this has happened. I even have a "wallet incident" folder in gmail for this.
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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#12And this is how it ended: EpicGames locked as spam and limited conversation to collaborators now [1].
[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Shared-Image-2022-06-05-12-1...
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#14The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.
There was a thundering herd e-mail at Amazon about 10 years ago that I’ve heard stories about. It went on for days. There’s a funny internal talk with lots of data about it, maybe it’s on YouTube by now…
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#16And the unsubscribe feature doesn’t even work.
Ah yes, the non working unsubscribes of SaaS and social media companies. I prefer the straight up mailchimp type marketing campaigns with one click to unsubscribe
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#17And sadly, the party is over.
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#18Anyone could have done this by mistake, all it'd take is being a bit tired and @ing the wrong group.
The question is - why doesn't the platform warn you that you're going to send notifications to a large number of people in the same way that many email clients do?
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#19My freshman class (~4000) at university was sent an email by administrators via the freshman class mailing list. Someone replied, which lead to their email being sent to the entire mailing list... another email asking to be removed from the mailing list, etc, suddenly everyone was hit by a deluge of hundreds of emails asking to be removed.
Getting real flashbacks to that from the snarky / annoyed comments on this :)
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#20Maybe they were an intern