It's amazing that not only did they fuck up the regex, but only changed how the link was displayed and not where it linked to. And somehow their org is fucked up enough that someone not only wrote this incompetent code but it went into production.
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It's amazing that not only did they fuck up the ~~regex~~ regetwitter, .
FTFY
Any talent Twitter once had jumped ship a long time ago
I'm sure plenty of H1B visa talent is still there, terrified to do anything that Musk doesn't explicitly order them to do, thus resulting in the same sort of fuckups that would result if they weren't there. So I guess at least Twitter is stopping foreign people from having to go back to an impoverished life in Goa or wherever.
Marginalized non-white people working for him while afraid of the consequences of quitting or disagreeing must take him back to his childhood.
That's because apparently nobody is around to know you can't pɐɹsǝ 卄ㄒ爪ㄥ ɥʇıʍ Ṝ̷̟̿e̸̗̙̻̍̊̆͝g̷̺̠̦͍̭̜̬̩̎̃Ë̵̛͍̮̥͇͎͎̤͐͂̉̂͜x̸̧̙̎̇͊̈́͐̏͑̒͘
Wait, they just did a text replacement and didn’t change the anchor links? I tried x dot com and it redirects to twitter, so even if they changed the links, too, it would just send them back to twitter.
(laughs in SEO) You fools!
If they really wanted X to happen they’d do a full site migration using 301, or 308, redirects of twitter to x.
Do they just not have the resources to do this or what the hell is stopping them from doing it the correct way if that’s what they want? Doesn’t Musk own the x domain?
It was evident a year ago that Musk fired or drove away all their skilled, competent engineers.
They can't do it the right way because a) they don't know how b) nobody understands most of their existing services, and c) Musk is guaranteed to step in and fuck everything up.
My understanding is, Musk fired all the developers who actually understood how Twitter works, and now they don't know how to manage that migration without breaking the site.
armchair developer here, but it wouldn't be that hard, right? Isn't it just a single line at the very root of the domain in .htaccess - or whatever equivalent if there's a different stack
I’ve never done the actual implementation myself, honestly. Redirects can be done via .htaccess (or equivalent), server side, or JavaScript.
Theoretically, yes, it’s that easy. However, pages should have 1:1 redirects for each page URL that matters. Then a strategy to prune the ones no longer needed/outdated by allowing them to 404, redirect to the most relevant subfolder, or just send to the main domain should be considered.
The list can be quite long. There’s more to it than all this as well, but that’s the general gist.
yeah I assumed everything stayed the same except domain - and if best practices are maintained then everything should have relative urls anyway...
Just optics, I guess? Probably some urgent drug-induced decree from Elron. They still have tons of references to Twitter in various parts of the site. The transition to the 'x' domain (which yes, Musk has owned since 1999) was rushed, hasty, and poorly done, not to mention incredibly stupid from a business perspective.
Is it amazing? I think it's virtually expected.
And to think, the same guy greenlighting the processes and creating the culture that produced a problem like that, also heads another company that puts software in the hands of people called "full self driving" that controls a piece of equipment that is thousands of pounds and flying down our streets and highways at significant speeds.
What a time to be alive!
To say nothing of the whole, y'know, "grafting experimental hardware directly into peoples' brains" thing.
Don't forget the rockets filled with explosive fuel 💖
Remember when they destroyed the launch pad because he had a "better" approach to its design? https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-damage-starbase-launch-pad
I recently found out that many high profile engineers from Tesla have left to create a new EV company called Lucid.
The cars are pricey, but they look really nice. Might be worth checking out if you’re in the market and have a boatload of money burning a hole in your pocket.
The cars aren't what you should be worried about, he also has a company that makes brain chips meant to be implanted in humans.
Imagine that that kind of technology could do to people when it matures.
when it matures.
Do you think Musk will wait for it to mature before doing whatever he wants with it?
Absolutely not, but I do think most people won't adopt it until it's mature and it likely won't become a problem until lots of people have adopted it.
Honestly I think Tesla and spacex got where they did as he wasn't doing any programming. Last time I used paypal it felt janky af.
You know how this conversation went:
I want everything that says twitter.com to say x.com instead!
"Well ... I mean we can do that, but it's going to break this, and this, and this, with these consequences."
JUST REPLACE THE STRING 'TWITTER.COM' WITH 'X.COM' AND DO IT NOW.
"Okay."
I only hope someone got it in writing.
I mean you could write some better matching patterns
TBF Regex is too complicated for Muskchild to understand
I hope someone is recording everything he says during these meetings, it'd make a great podcast
Deletion on account from 2008 incoming. From someone who logs into MySpace once every couple years to keep my account alive.
Who's ready to follow this clown to Mars?
Fuck that, who's ready for the brain chips!
Sell the twitter.com domain name you coward.
both pre-musk era and post-musk era twitter was shit. twitter sucked all the time. reddit is the best platform idea imo, but it sucks too. not open-source, sells data to google ai and blocks third party apps. fuck you reddit and thank you for showing me lemmy
I think Twitter was what you made it before. If you tuned your feed, it was enjoyable - it's a straight up shit show now.