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Why does Nate Hoffelder need to review the security of my connection all of a sudden? It didnt seem to bother them an hour ago /s


That is Cloudflare.

So many people were clicking on the link from here that it inadvertently DDOS-ed my server. I had to turn on the "under attack" feature in Cloudflare just to get the other sites running again.


Good to get this cleared up. I had 5-0 in the back of my mind .. putting it down to too much SWOS back in the heyday


SWOS?


Sensible World of Soccer would be my guess.


Is it they do illegal thing and then try to extort money from you for doing the same thing? Or have they received a royal blessing nowadays and can do so legally?


I imagine it's not illegal for them since they do have copyright, after all (unless when they don't).


Will just squirt some ink into your mouth upon detecting such abuse and violation of ToS



This made me laugh. Even before clicking the link.


Ok but what's with that fence? Looking at that makes my eyes hurt. Is than an artefact of the video compression or the game itself?


Yeah, it looks like a Firebird now. It confuses the hell out of me


Now it's just a fox looking like a bird. Not a fan


That's literally the point, though.


Maybe, but the product is called Thunderbird not Firebird


No but their sister product, the one with which they're trying to create an explicit brand relationship, is Firefox.


The point is to make the logo less distinctive?


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I look no further than bubble sort -- it is simple enough I can recite it straight away should someone wake me up at modnight.


Bubblesort is the bestsort.


On top of that (and maybe I'm just clumsy with controls) I can easily jump back and forth and re-read the text a few times if I need to. It's very difficult to rewind the video to exactly the same position you need it to.


That's their mobile layout in general. In their view they must have improved UX immensely since no mobile person has needed help/support since introduction of infinite scrolling


yesterday I tried to access customer service on my phone and I was unable to figure it out. the phone number told me to toss off and the chat link (even in desktop mode) just redirected me to the amazon app page in the App Store, an app I already have downloaded. I had to go on my laptop in the end


My wife chats with them so often, in the app I just have to go to hamburger menu > contact us > return to chat.

If your shortcuts don’t include “contact us” you should be able to find it by scrolling to the bottom of the hamburger menu and tapping “customer service”. getting a live agent entails some dark magic, but if you bother the bot enough she’ll connect you.


what region are you in? I accidentally switched my region to USA a while ago and the whole app’s UI changed drastically. on my app Contact Us is hidden 3 layers deep with each link at the bottom of its layer

but (on desktop) if you want to speak to a human once you are actually in chat, there’s a very subtle button in the centre just above the message bar that will bypass the automated system if you click it


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