Null User Object to Technology@beehaw.org • 1 year agoAPI pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hoursarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1276
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minus-square@FiskFisk33link35•1 year agoI saw a lot of people saying they used bots to rewrite their entire post history to things like “fuck /u/spez” I’m thinking that amount of comment editing might be quite the spike on the servers.
minus-square@lawliot@beehaw.orglinkfedilink16•edit-21 year agoI did that, but not “fuck u/spez” because that might get the comment deleted altogether making the edit meaningless. Instead I edited to say the comments been deleted in protest against the API changes.
minus-square@Gork@beehaw.orglinkfedilink12•1 year agoIf enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol
I saw a lot of people saying they used bots to rewrite their entire post history to things like “fuck /u/spez”
I’m thinking that amount of comment editing might be quite the spike on the servers.
I did that, but not “fuck u/spez” because that might get the comment deleted altogether making the edit meaningless. Instead I edited to say the comments been deleted in protest against the API changes.
If enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol