Sheldon Chang 🇺🇸 (@sysop408@sfba.social)
sfba.social
Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right. The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in. This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS. Unbelievable. It's amateur hour. #TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

The jokes are writing themselves.

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Incredible. There’s no way engineers didn’t push this to production without testing. So what happened? My uneducated guess is that Musk told them to force logins by the end of the day or something.

    • achsonaja@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      There’s no way engineers didn’t push this to production without testing.

      That’s quite an assumption

      • gornius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, fuckups happen all the time even with great engineers. GitLab and GitHub are great examples.

        • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          But in this case we have Elon Musk, a CEO who just wants to get things done. The engineers may have pushed this without testing because they don’t want to get fired.

    • thekernel@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Likely a lot of lost institutional knowledge, plus good talent wont put up with bullshit and hang around unless they are tethered with visa restrictions or similar.

  • Abby@vlemmy.netEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Such a noob move.

    No rate limiting, no exponential back off… That’s the easiest recipe for failure

  • Mr. Shark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Said this elsewhere but I bet Elon was the one who wrote that code too. I feel like an actual scripter/coder would know to rate them requests even for their own local services.