There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

cloudless ,

Every month Google reminds us not to depend on their services.

Damage ,

Who could have foreseen this

0x0 ,

Another one bites the dust.

Land_Strider ,

I skim this page every time it is posted, but this time scrolling the whole length of it even as fast as I can gave me depression. 295 projects, almost half of them killed in the last 5 years.

Buffalox ,

I don’t think any other company is based on trial and error to the same degree as Google.
It’s kind of funny, since Google was originally based on hiring the greatest capacities within their field. So you should think they were pretty smart.
But trial and error is actually the LEAST INTELLIGENT method to solve a problem.

Etterra ,

They have one? I just use tinyurl.

hahattpro ,

So goo.le no longer work ?

magic_lobster_party ,

Yes. Massive link rot incoming

AceBonobo ,

More data rot. I wonder how many millions of links are about to disappear.

victorz ,

I really hope nobody used shortened links in href attributes. That would be stupid.

qprimed ,

oh, god! quick! somebody contact boeing!

Deebster ,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.

magic_lobster_party ,

Don’t worry. There’s a high chance at least one critical software has a shortened link somewhere in their infrastructure.

qprimed ,

as if millions of voices links voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

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