Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
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Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#2"An unusual bug on Facebook briefly labelled many people as dead."
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#3I have to wonder what the attempted feature was that resulted in this.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#4Let's wait for the post-mortem on this one.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#5I have to wonder what the attempted feature was that resulted in this.
If it's anything like my bugs, it's a single-character typo in the template.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#6I have to wonder what the attempted feature was that resulted in this.
If it's anything like my bugs, it's a single-character typo in the template.
I feel like Facebook must do a phased roll out of their front-end modifications such that they'd detect that before it was big enough to matter (or perhaps during language normalization which must be huge for them). My guess is they were running something on the back-end to "clean up" dead users and it went haywire.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#7Thirty years from now: Same headline without quotes.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#8Thirty years from now: Same headline without quotes.
This was the dry run.
P.S. I took a screenshot of my profile while I was dead, and just set a reminder to post the 'memory' next year.
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#9Who uses Facebook?
Re: Facebook bug 'kills' users in 'terrible error'
#10"We hope people who love %s will find comfort in the things others share to remember and celebrate %s life." is one of the most insincere code commits of that day. Let others write about a lost loved one, not robots.