Tapped “Subscribe” out of curiosity and of course it works. Wow -.-

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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    kagis

    Ah hah. Thought so.

    You're in luck. It looks like after that post blew up on Reddit, someone went out and actually implemented a commercial Cat Facts service:

    https://catfactstexts.com/

    Texts to Send Per Day:

    • 1 message per day
    • 2 messages per day
    • 3 messages per day
    • 5 messages per day
    • 10 messages per day
    • 15 messages per day

    kagis more

    Apparently there's an entire industry with competing commercial services:

    https://www.catfacts.co/

    At least one of the developers of the latter service posted to Reddit when he did so:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/mel529/cat_facts_i_made_a_service_that_lets_you/

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bad error handling in the client. Whoever programmed it didn’t think there could be errors in the backend, so when their request doesn’t go through, they default to the ‘no internet’ message.

    Or, you know, it’s an asshole company, but Hanlon’s razor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I wonder, can we do a ddos everytime they pull this shit?

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