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by rhizome 3511 days ago
I have to wonder what the attempted feature was that resulted in this.
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If it's anything like my bugs, it's a single-character typo in the template.
I feel like Facebook must do a phased roll out of their front-end modifications such that they'd detect that before it was big enough to matter (or perhaps during language normalization which must be huge for them). My guess is they were running something on the back-end to "clean up" dead users and it went haywire.
When someone on Facebook dies, you can memoralize their account. The check the determined whether or not an account is memoralized failed.