User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and subscribed everyone ~100K

Re:User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and sub... by southclaw on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:20PM (#12168809)

I got an email about being added to this repo a few weeks ago, thought nothing of it and just assumed it was a bug that I got subscribed to notifications. This morning I got the same email, thought nothing of it again.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2...

Half an hour ago, an email drops in my GitHub folder and I see a couple of comments appear on the page before exploding!

I'm still receiving emails as I write this... 100 so far!

The chaos ended when the user (teardemon) presumably deleted their account (the repo and account are both 404s)

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Re:User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and sub... by davidbarker on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:22PM (#12168823)

I'm still receiving emails, too, despite having unwatched the repo once they started. Presumably there's a backlog of emails to send out?

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Re:User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and sub... by southclaw on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @05:23PM (#12168832)

I assume so, comments sections probably aren't designed to handle the speed at which messages were coming in. I saw many comments saying people had unsubscribed and were still receiving notifications.

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