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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by pram on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:24PM (#27667532)
The best part is clicking a link, loading a page, and it just says “Something broke”

Twitter does this too. How the fuck is it even possible?

Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by NavinF on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:39PM (#27667752)
Glad it's not just me. Twitter seems to break more often when a page is loaded from the browser cache, but I can't pin down any other pattern for the “Something broke” errors on both mobile and desktop.

Will Twitter ever have more than two 9s of reliability as measured from the user's POV?

Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by handrous on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:51PM (#27667934)
Oh, I just posted a question about this elsewhere in the thread. I've come to assume this is intentional and probably doesn't happen if you're logged in or using the app (though I don't know). It's been like this for years. Like every time I follow a link to Twitter I seem to get a random roll whether it works, and same random roll on each refresh. After n refreshes, where n may be 0-10, it works. Browsing the site doesn't do this.
Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by zwog on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:29PM (#27670589)
I literally can't open Twitter links on my phone (Firefox as browser). It always says "something went wrong" and reloading a bunch of times doesn't help either. If I use the same link on Desktop (or change my phone browser's user agent) it works. I think its a fuck you pattern to get me to install the app.