Can you only tag organisations who have worked on the repository? That would make sense I suppose...
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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#32can someone explain how this isn't the intended behavior?
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#33The 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…
Something similar happened at Cisco something like maybe 5 years ago? Someone sent the Bay Area employees or whatever list (probably at least some tens of thousands of employees) an ask for a cook/chef they could hire to make meals for their family, IIRC. I think the reply-all's happened all week.
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#34And 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...
It doesn’t really fix the “vulnerability” though? Some other jerk can open a new PR and tag everyone again. Or just tag @EpicGames/developers elsewhere, no PR needed.
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#35Legend
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#36Haha, like how the top two HN posts right now are: - GitHub user sends notification to 400000 users - How to stop USPS junk mail
The algorithm at work
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#37There 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?
Looks like one of those youtube comment scams that target teenagers
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#39And the unsubscribe feature doesn’t even work.
It does but each comment adds 400k emails to the queue before you, so all of the comments that happened before you unsubscribed are already queued. I unsubscribed and it did eventually stop.
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#40Largest code review ever?