I can't remember a major service nosediving so monumentally in such a short period of time. Just a steady degradation of service.
At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
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#122On an unrelated point, Californian employees in the main layoff were employed till January 4 for legal reasons. Many of them were demanding their contracted 2 months' severance to follow that. Now that 2 months have just passed, does anyone know if they received this pay?
No... he got the class action thrown out because of an arbitration clause... so each individual case must go through arbitration, and those are all still pending (when I checked a week or two ago).
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#124Twitter went down constantly in its early years and did fine; as long as errors get fixed, I don't see why that dynamic would spell doom for Twitter now. There are a lot of people for whom the idea that Twitter can get along without most of its former headcount is a bitter pill to swallow, but that doesn't make it untrue.
One reason the site was stable pre-Musk is that no one made any changes to it. For better or worse, it's now owned by someone who actually uses the product and has ideas for how to develop it.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Do you just have a gut feeling that they are being abused? I thought the crowd that didn't like working there, left.
There's plenty of evidence on Twitter, from Musk firing engineers who confront him with straight technical questions, to Musk demanding ridiculous work hours as if it's a sign of strength or loyalty.
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#126Twitter Support just posted: "Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed." https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/163279294226274713...
Thanks for typing out their tweet. I wouldn't have been able to have read it otherwise, seeing twitter is down.
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#127https://status.twitterstat.us/ says everything is operational
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I don't think "supposed to" includes breaking Lord Elon's tweets on the actual Twitter domain:
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#128It's kind of funny that another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043330) is in top 5 Google results for "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint" search term, and is flooded with newly created accounts asking for support.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where did you land on the bets? It appears that when Twitter goes down, its engineers were indispensable but when it's up, it's because the engineers foresaw this. Given those factors, how long it stays up must be an interesting combination of how indispensable the engineers made themselves vs how much foresight they had.
I know some of the former Twitter engineers, and they were great engineers. I'm sure they built a fairly resilient system. But at the scale and complexity, eventually you hit an unforeseen error that requires some institutional knowledge to fix, and it's doubtful they still have that, unless the ex-engineers loved the product so much they are willing to take phone calls from the people that are left and point them in…
Do you actually think it will go down for good?
That seems extremely unlikely to me.
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#130I can't remember a major service nosediving so monumentally in such a short period of time. Just a steady degradation of service.
At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
> At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
I don't spend enough time on Reddit for that to really resonate, but the badges and icons flying all over the place and talk of Twitter Gold (or whatever they're calling it) do feel very Reddit-esque these days.