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OpenChaos.dev is an experiment where the most upvoted pull request gets merged every day. Today’s winning PR added a 1.337% chance of serving a blank page. And Vercel, doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, cached it. So a probabilistic failure became a permanent outage.

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[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's back to life again, and the 1.3337% check is now moved to client-side

Edit: huh, fucky internet made a double post

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