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User forked UnrealEngine on GitHub and gave write and subscribed everyone ~100K

28 points by stedaniels 10y ago

stedaniels 10y ago
404 note: You have to be logged in, and have previously been a member of the UnrealEngine repo to see this and not get a 404... I think. I also saw this a while ago as southclaw says. There were also a few other repo's I got email notifications from Github about my having been automatically subscribed. I figured the first of today was a copycat of the one a while ago. I was surprised more people didn't do it then. The later ones today also seemed to be copycats of the first one today. Not sure how Github should solve this, but they should solve this. Edit (22:45 BST): It also now looks like teardemon has deleted his Github account. https://github.com/teardemon/ https://github.com/teardemon/ Best to look at Null-Set's screenshot http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM
detaro 10y ago
404
- stedaniels 10y ago
  You have to be logged in, and have previously been a member of the UnrealEngine repo... I think.
Null-Set 10y ago
Screenshot of the chaos. http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM
- jlgaddis 10y ago
  Some men just want to watch the world burn.
southclaw 10y ago
I got an email about being added to this repo a few weeks ago, thought nothing of it and just assumed it was a bug that I got subscribed to notifications. This morning I got the same email, thought nothing of it again. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2016-07-26_22-22-27.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2... Half an hour ago, an email drops in my GitHub folder and I see a couple of comments appear on the page before exploding! I'm still receiving emails as I write this... 100 so far! The chaos ended when the user (teardemon) presumably deleted their account (the repo and account are both 404s)
- davidbarker 10y ago
  I'm still receiving emails, too, despite having unwatched the repo once they started. Presumably there's a backlog of emails to send out?
  - southclaw 10y ago
    I assume so, comments sections probably aren't designed to handle the speed at which messages were coming in. I saw many comments saying people had unsubscribed and were still receiving notifications.
Mathnerd314 10y ago
Notice from Unreal: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?118366 https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?118366 Nobody has access anymore. The repo and the user (teardemon) are both gone.
captainmuon 10y ago
I don't understand... when he forks the repository, why did everybody watching the original one get set to watching the new repository? When I create a fork, that doesn't happens.
- mikecmpbll 10y ago
  because he changed the repo permissions to allow the UnrealEngine organisation write access, and github automatically watches repos for you when you're granted write access.
meticulo3366 10y ago
And this is why my inbox blew up...
meticulo3366 10y ago
and this is why my inbox blew up :(

28 points by stedaniels 10y ago

404 note: You have to be logged in, and have previously been a member of the UnrealEngine repo to see this and not get a 404... I think. I also saw this a while ago as southclaw says. There were also a few other repo's I got email notifications from Github about my having been automatically subscribed. I figured the first of today was a copycat of the one a while ago. I was surprised more people didn't do it then. The later ones today also seemed to be copycats of the first one today. Not sure how Github should solve this, but they should solve this. Edit (22:45 BST): It also now looks like teardemon has deleted his Github account. https://github.com/teardemon/ https://github.com/teardemon/ Best to look at Null-Set's screenshot http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM

detaro 10y ago

404

stedaniels 10y ago
You have to be logged in, and have previously been a member of the UnrealEngine repo... I think.

Null-Set 10y ago

Screenshot of the chaos. http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM http://imgur.com/a/yVjAM

jlgaddis 10y ago
Some men just want to watch the world burn.

southclaw 10y ago

I got an email about being added to this repo a few weeks ago, thought nothing of it and just assumed it was a bug that I got subscribed to notifications. This morning I got the same email, thought nothing of it again. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2016-07-26_22-22-27.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45512231/ShareX/chrome_2... Half an hour ago, an email drops in my GitHub folder and I see a couple of comments appear on the page before exploding! I'm still receiving emails as I write this... 100 so far! The chaos ended when the user (teardemon) presumably deleted their account (the repo and account are both 404s)

davidbarker 10y ago
I'm still receiving emails, too, despite having unwatched the repo once they started. Presumably there's a backlog of emails to send out?
- southclaw 10y ago
  I assume so, comments sections probably aren't designed to handle the speed at which messages were coming in. I saw many comments saying people had unsubscribed and were still receiving notifications.

Mathnerd314 10y ago

Notice from Unreal: https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?118366 https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?118366 Nobody has access anymore. The repo and the user (teardemon) are both gone.

captainmuon 10y ago

I don't understand... when he forks the repository, why did everybody watching the original one get set to watching the new repository? When I create a fork, that doesn't happens.

mikecmpbll 10y ago
because he changed the repo permissions to allow the UnrealEngine organisation write access, and github automatically watches repos for you when you're granted write access.

meticulo3366 10y ago

And this is why my inbox blew up...

meticulo3366 10y ago

and this is why my inbox blew up :(