cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398

The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.

With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 260 points 1 year ago (11 children)

crashes

Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago

    Anytime I want to cancel something and the company makes it difficult I just cancel the credit card side of it. Sod them. That's what they get if they want to play silly buggers.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.

    Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven't made it scalable? Yes.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Could also be a decision to limit how much the service scales as more people use it. It's not like they are incentivised to throw a bunch of hardware at the problem when the problem in question is "people are unable to leave the platform"

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments