Haha, like how the top two HN posts right now are:
- GitHub user sends notification to 400000 users
- How to stop USPS junk mail
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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#22Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#23I don't get this comment on github:
> Lock it. Lock it now. This is the friendliest message I'm going to send, while I look for ways to get OP banned from Github for gross social misconduct. I imagine that "owner of bots universe" might be enough to get that account tagged as a bot, who knows how many communities across however many repositories that person just bothered across all of Github.
Wasn't the message send as in innocent mistake? Why is this man adding fuel to the fire (sharpening his pitchfork?). Did I miss something about this?
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#24Fun fact: at some point I wrote @param in a PR comment, talking about a parameter's doc. I only realized after posting that there was an actual user named @param.
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#25GitHub testing social media feature
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#26Approximately 61,761,765 emails sent, if we figure 1 email per comment per member. Nice!
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#27The 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.
It must be hard for GitHub servers, but which e-mail client is crashing from about 100 short, text-only messages received in an hour?
Outlook 2003?
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#28Bedlam DL3 please stand up.
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#29There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo.
https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls
https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files
https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files
What is going on?
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#30Anyone 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?
Or in the way that `rn` used to do when posting to Usenet:
> This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.