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It's just enough to annoy you but not enough to make everyone leave the platform
I honestly thought Reddit would die when they introduced Reddit awards, it seemed like such an obvious cash grab. You can't underestimate the amount of community momentum that the site has though.
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> We don't know... So, the rarest of cases (our network isn’t serving traffic) just happened right now, and their failover system just took a snooze then, but 'it exists apparently' according to you. Tell that the huge clients that lost sales because of this, and all you have to say is: "wE DoN'T kNoW..."
> Tell that the huge clients that lost sales because of this, and all you have to say is: "wE DoN'T kNoW..." Tell these clients that they should've carefully read their contract with Fastly, especially the 'Service Level Agreement' part.
A worldwide outage happened that affected almost all locations and everybody, so actually SLA is meaningless in this case. Where was the extra redundancy? Where was the failover system? Why was other companies indirectly affected?
As far as I know Fastly's status page was even down during the outage, the fact that the best answer to this 'is we don't know' tells you everything you need to know. Maybe stop victim blaming this situation and focus on the main culprit.
So many companies sweep this sort of things under the rug if it’s only customer data that’s been breached. If they can’t sweep they have a high priced PR agency do the communicating.
I do not trust companies who handle things this way.
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Amusingly, the Stackoverflow 503 page has a typo: Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru *Mediation*: Details: cache-lon4236-LON 1623146049 854282175 Varnish cache server
We use Fastly (and our site is down too) but I asked them about this a couple of years ago. It is deliberate. They said it was so they can tell if it is their Varnish service or the customer's Varnish service that is down
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> Cloudflare as state-of-the-art in terms of security and ease-of-use Depends whose security. I value my security dearly and that's why i use the Tor Browser. Cloudflare has decided i cannot browse any of their websites if i care about my security (they filter out tor users and archiving bots agressively) so i'm not using any cloudflare-powered website. Is it good for security that we prevent people from using securi…
Speaking for myself here, I don't see how people can use the web without javascript. As for Tor, you're routing other people's traffic while they route yours, so I can understand how such connections would be blocked given that blocking IPs is still a method for mitigating security issues, and you can't determine the IP of a Tor browser.
Using Tor doesn't imply that your machine is also a Tor exit node.
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Looks like an error (typo) with Varnish .. it's the same on multiple sites. Maybe a good way to work out which versions are being used.
It's interesting because Varnish gets it write in their docs: https://varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/troubleshoo...
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That sounds antithetical to the purpose of emojis.
Same reason why Gmail uses their own emojis rather than the system ones — (as said above) branding. When you send a tweet, Twitter wants it to look identical across all devices. The classic native UI vs cross-platform UI debate in a nutshell.
Twitter is a media between people. Removing emoji representation differences on user devices is a way to hopefully reduce misunderstandings between users.
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I'm confused, why isn't being fired something to lose sleep over in your eyes? I get that you're implying that the job itself is not worth that much concern, but it seems you're ignoring that jobs bring in income, pay your mortgage, etc. If i lost my job tomorrow i'd be terrified.
People rarely get fired for outages. The comment you are replying to is saying that engineers shouldn’t stress out over an outage that only impacts a corporation. It’s a commentary on work / life balance and the all-too-common phenomenon of employees sacrificing for a company (in this case, feeling such personal stress that they would lose sleep) and contrasting it with the fact that most employers will fire you with…
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It's just enough to annoy you but not enough to make everyone leave the platform
I honestly thought Reddit would die when they introduced Reddit awards, it seemed like such an obvious cash grab. You can't underestimate the amount of community momentum that the site has though.