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Twitter/X removing the block feature (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less work needed to maintain the system? He fired most engineers, those remaining can only do so much at one time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's there to maintain, the feature is already there and should be relatively simple. I can't imagine that Twitter backend is so bad that it requires active work on all components.