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byteasf
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so, i tried following @ghost on daily.dev but there was no follow button so i did some reverse engineering and api fckery, all in 10 minutes. then got a whole ass undocumented api error code just for mr @ghost saying I can’t follow it. Then, the one follower before me: a daily.dev employee who probably admin abused and went into the database and followed to flex. when we all know, they suck. and they put such low effort into following such a rare account, then furthermore restricting others from doing it so he can be the only one. crazy. I wish I could do this: The exact opposite of what he did. Instead of denying following to one single account on daily.dev, allow anti-following (and deny following) one single account on daily.dev, which account to do that to? The employee who did this and their daily dev account… Anti-following in my idea is basically publicly saying “I hate you with a passion” on daily.dev. So, there. And since he made a custom api code restricting following the @ghost account, I’ll make a custom API code when trying to anti-follow another account or follow his: 3714957 (translating to “f…you” from old telephone language, if you’re confused, take each letter from the original word, get the number in the alphabet from the start it’s in. then divide it by 3. you’ll get a result close to each letter I made in that api code.) So yeah, nice day today. F. ck graphql and overprivileged employees. Ever heard of principle of the least privilege daily.dev CEO? I bet you give interns root. I regret signing up there. Peace :]

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  • 4
    Dev.to articles are so commercial and stuff. I prefer more technical in depth stuff. Also, a lot of content is for beginners x, beginners y. Many there are very well in writing articles but doubt their programming skills. Wish I could write like that tho, would've helped me a lot. I hate documentation.

    What are more nice community sites?
  • 2
    @retoor Yeah, my first time on dev.to was pretty annoying since that get account banner on the bottom all the time is annoying. I'd even say Stack Overflow has more of a community and soul feeling than them.
  • 3
    Fuck dev.to, nowadays it's the same 10 beginner topics reposted every few days + AI-generated worthless posts and maybe 10% original/interesting stuff

    Also heavily censored by the authors, any corrections or criticism comments get deleted
  • 0
    I tried dev.to and it just sucks. It wasn't worth the email down I get from them now.

    Great idea, low quality content.
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