• andrew@lemmy.dblclk.dev
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    1 year ago

    There was so much media coverage and notifications around it. I can’t believe so many people were blindsided!

    • arefx@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re giving humans too much credit the vast majority are idiots. Probably me included.

      • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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        1 year ago

        No they are just busy living their lives. They are not following reddit events. Maybe that seems weird to someone who constantly follows it, but the absolute majority have other things going on in their lives.

        Good for them I guess. :)

      • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Not being aware of the api change doesn’t make someone stupid just means they aren’t chronically online and don’t fellow the fear mongering media

  • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    That’s wild. Didn’t most of the apps release notifications in advance, through the app interface? It’s possible Reddit actually is having outages, as well as having cut off third party apps, though I am not going to check.

    • phorq@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Clearly you’ve never had to work in customer support. People take “ignorance is bliss” to heart.

  • inode@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I imagine these were the same people complaining about their favorite subreddits being closed. Completely clueless over what was happening right in front of them.

    • 70ms@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s when most of the third party apps stopped working forever due to the API changes.