I think its unfair to stereotype a community made up of people of all walks of life based on a sliver of a sliver of its members. What's different about gaming than reading books or watching movies or playing soccer that makes gamers toxic and juvenile?
Stereotyping is always oversimplifying, but I agree with sejje. Every group has their vocal, toxic, and juvenile minority. And, in this case, the behavior in the comments matches my experiences with the vocal, toxic, and juvenile minority of gamers.
It's worth mentioning for context how long this outage lasted. It started at around midnight eastern and only came back at around 8am today.
Furthermore, before the outage, people were able to view other people's account details without doing anything. It definitely seems like it was a caching issue in that regard - nobody attempted to do anything other than use the site and they saw other people's data.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 46.3 ms ] threadWhat CDN would not respect "caching rulesets"? Cache-Control: Private and Vary: Cookie are well-established.
> We will follow up tomorrow with a further technical explanation of what occurred.
I can't wait. I hope they're being honest and this was a genuine error of a third party, and not incompetence on their end.
> The answer is "yes and no," and we'll cover this in more detail in the forthcoming technical explanation of tonight's events.
So I guess old accounts' passwords are not salted. Still, I'll be waiting for the technical explanation.
Furthermore, before the outage, people were able to view other people's account details without doing anything. It definitely seems like it was a caching issue in that regard - nobody attempted to do anything other than use the site and they saw other people's data.