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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.
Looks like they dealt with the tag too as https://github.com/orgs/EpicGames/teams/developers is showing not found
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Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive? [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...
probably for resume? “Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine” luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed
I'm confused. Can someone explain why the Epic Games developers team has close to 400k members?
To download unreal engine, you need to join this org.
The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not receive any threat.
I hope the Epic developers reach out to him nicely with constructive feedback and maybe a thanks for his well-meaning PR.
can someone explain how this isn't the intended behavior?
Sending email notifications to 400,000 users for unimportant things is antisocial. (If 0.1% of those users then reply on the thread, it'd be another 400 comments sent to all 400,000 recipients). I don't think anyone sits down and thinks the intentional behaviour should be "we should make it easy for someone to send a notification email to 400,000 people". That would clearly be annoying. I think the behaviour is accid…
What about requiring people to join a specific team to access the source for no apparent reason? In other words, how are the conditions which led to the creation of this inflated team not antisocial as well?
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I'm confused. Can someone explain why the Epic Games developers team has close to 400k members?
To download unreal engine, you need to join this org.
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Ouch. I try to not mix work and personal content on the same laptop, I’ve seen too many glitches (although usually not quite that embarrassing). Slack has been my one exception (although only on my phone). Thanks for the valuable reminder.
> I try to not mix work and personal content on the same laptop It's kind of jaw dropping to me at how this is still not the norm and how people gratuitously mix personal and work content on the same devices, both mobile and desktop.
There was a teensy-weensy little caveat: Google IT could wipe your personal device at any time!
No thanks.
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probably for resume? “Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine” luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed
The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
What everyone didn't know was that when you were granted access to this entrance, you were also added to the "bike storage mailing list". Long story short, at some point someone accidentally sent a message to the entire mailing list of ~100k people, which kicked off a long string off people reply-all'ing asking to be taken off said mailing list ("I don't even own a bike why am I on this mailing list"), which caused even more people to reply ("stop reply-all'ing for the love of god!"). I think there were 500 emails in my inbox from that by the end of the day.