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[–] kraken@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that anyone wouldn't have known..

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly you've never had to work in customer support. People take "ignorance is bliss" to heart.

[–] kraken@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You caught me. Never worked customer support a day in my life!

[–] Jackolantern@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is funny but at the same time sad

[–] andrew@lemmy.dblclk.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 1 points 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

[–] mrmanager 1 points 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. :)

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 2 points 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.

[–] mrmanager 1 points 1 year ago
[–] LostRedditor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] inode@lemmy.ml 1 points 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.

[–] LegendofZelda64@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That's honestly kinda sad :( At least I had weeks to prepare for it..

[–] illidian@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the reason for all these outage reports?

[–] 70ms@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

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