It was a server-side block, from Cloudflare (security rule specifically). I’m very familiar with it, having used the same service over a decade. They are able to tweak the overall security level, or specific WAF rules for the endpoint in Cloudflare. They also have analytics that will show them exactly how many cancellation requests would be blocked. The fact that they totally ignored these details in my ticket, is concerning.

Maybe, but it would also be very easy to blame on misconfiguration / mistake. Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me if the behavior itself isn’t purposeful, but ignoring / not fixing it is. I’ve definitely seen such behavior at other companies, where they drag their feet on fixing a bug that is bad for the user, but helping them.

On a related note… I went to cancel a membership a few weeks back, and the site displayed a message “you don’t have an active membership to cancel”. I thought it was strange, so I checked out the network requests being made, and turned out the cancel API call was getting blocked for “security reasons”. Nothing else on the site was blocked for me, just the cancellation endpoint.

I opened a ticket, and it took them nearly 2 weeks to respond, and there was zero acknowledgement on why cancellation would be blocked.

Not sure if it’s a purposeful dark pattern, but it sure seems like it!

It isn’t how it works today. I’m talking about sometime in the distant (or near) future. Surely at some point AI will have the capabilities on par with at least a low level hacker.

Or, if you still think that’s a stretch, just imagine all the ways perfectly legitimate software can cost companies money. Not through malicious design, but just by mistakes.

That would only really work well if you had an equal number / frequency of posts coming in on your ‘Everything’ and ‘Subscription’ feeds. Otherwise the posts from your subscriptions could pretty easily get ‘overwhelmed’.

I think the idea is, see almost everything you are subscribed to, but also don’t miss any very popular posts. Ideally I’d love to be able to specify the ratio even. Something like “show me 5 posts from my subscriptions, followed by 1 post from another feed (e.g. Everything)”.

Instead of weighting posts, could also just do alternating posts from each list. With deduplication as well.

I’d also like this, I think highlighting the ‘points’ with the vote color is good enough for me.

Thanks for your work on converting Sync to use Lemmy! I’ve tried just about every App for Lemmy, and Sync seems to certainly be the most feature-filled one so far.

As far as pricing goes, I don’t see a problem with experimenting on price and seeing what people are willing to pay. To the people saying $20 is too much… we are talking about removing the main source of revenue in the app, forever. That’s a pretty tough thing to figure out the ‘right’ price for, and might take some experimentation. If I was the developer, you can bet I’d start the price high though, rather than too low.