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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by ForHackernews on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:31AM (#17353785)
> Why do so many tech companies have these Kafkaesque exception paths?

Support doesn't scale. Better that a million users have a terrible experience than one user takes up staff time getting their problem fixed.

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by wolfgke on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:56AM (#17353886)
> Support doesn't scale.

If you cannot (or don't want to) scale support, create the policies from beginning in a way that hardly needs any support. Just like you plan your database from beginning how it is supposed to scale.

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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by watt on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @06:39AM (#17354067)
I don't understand if you truly believe that or are trying to be sarcastic (poorly).
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Re:Blender is testing PeerTube after YouTube blocks their vi... by protonfish on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:10PM (#17356692)
Either way it's a comment that adds nothing constructive to the discussion.
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