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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.”

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[–] SpazOut@lemmy.world 87 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago

Yeah it’s not like services make the cancellation process super difficult. It’s like mafia style extortion. They make this type of stuff so difficult, I like to waste their time too, and make sure it involves wasting so many of their employees time, which they have to pay for.

[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm similarly skeptical it's a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago

hardly a silver bullet tho. capacity shortages, running up against any of dozens of quotas, or even just shit application code can and will fuck over even the best designed autoscaled cloud shit