[nindalf]

I can’t follow what they’re apologising for because I don’t have the context on what happened. Understandably, they don’t elaborate on their mistakes and instead focus on the apology.

Can anyone give a short summary of what happened?

[amq]

A good summary and the timeline here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/

[eevilspock]

Read this related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176712

...and in particular the link in the top comment, copied here for convenience: https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html