Source: https://xcancel.com/dshiatt/status/1840822267737162237
Obviously just damage control but they do seem to be “fixing it”. They must’ve accidentally implemented a feature to get and show image from the newest news post (which is often an ad), accidentally tested and vetted that feature, and accidentally pushed it.
Ah yes it’s always a bug after massive community backlash. If there wasn’t much, it’d have been a test, and if there wasn’t any, it was always intended.
Don’t you hate it when there is a bug in your code that magically attracts ads? They just appear without warning or reason.
I hate when I accidently spend months developing an ad feature that gets turned on by accident in my ps5.
you don’t get entire functional UI elements accurately populated with appropriate data out of a “bug”. at best its a feature that was being tested internally and never would have made it past that, at worst its something that went live early.
Oh whoops I accidentally built an entire ad portal and placed it onto the main page and oh no I accidentally passed it through multiple levels of code review QA and approval, then crap I deployed it to the test environment then prod
I love when people say it was a bug.
Yeah bugs happen.
Bugs don’t program themselves to do a specific function, that’s just called a function (language depending.)
Bullshit. This shit isn’t a bug. It was purposeful as a test to reception and to desensitize people
Someone made a typo in the code, ads show up… Happens all the time
Oh, good. I was about to give in to weakness and spend money on Space Marine 2.
Remember when mandatory Bethesda account in Doom64 was “just a bug” and then Doom Eternal had it for real?
i yearn for a day where these consumer (yes, not customers) stop spreading their cheeks willingly when these corps get ready with a purple destroyer
