alt Hacker NewsThat's fine, but rate limiting is a solved problem at this point. They need to rate-limit free accounts and be realistic about their limits instead of letting the system fail.
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Maxion • today at 1:58 PM
Probably can't do that easily due to shitty engineering decisions in the past
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zzbzq • today at 2:47 PM
They were about to push a big change to actions pricing a little wihle ago and people revolted
Free (and non-free) accounts are already rate limited. The likely problem is that individual accounts/repos rarely hit those limits, instead the explosive demand is due to a massive growth in the number of small, individual projects being creatd.