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by teaearlgraycold 1060 days ago
What was the bug?
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> The final point of failure was even less spectacular: a co-ordinated attempt to keep the button alive by automatically pressing it with donated accounts when it got too low had been working on overtime, but a fatal flaw meant that no-one bothered to check whether the anointed account actually could press.

> The bot queued up the account, attempted to press the button – and found that the account had been registered after 1 April.

This seems like one of the first things they would check for though, right?
> the most embarrassing bug of my career

Though to be honest, if that’s the most embarrassing bug abra0 is doing great.