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points by InsideOutSanta 3 days ago | 0 comments
All the spam this generates probably sucks for 404 Media, but the underlying problem is that ChatGPT is right. If you have any kind of problem with these overgrown, understaffed companies, your only chance is to get media attention.

Apple famously put "if you run to the press and trash us, it never helps" into their App Store Guidelines for developers, but the only reason they did have to do that is because it's a lie. Running to the press is the only thing that helps, which is why people do it.

[–] causal 3 days ago
Hacker News has also served as the ticketing system for more than one angry blogger who needed to get attention from the right engineers
[–] Good4boothee 2 days ago
The common part for all those horror stories is usually "I wrote to people from X I knew, and they said they can't do anything about it either".
[–] aeve890 2 days ago
What happened to that kind of posts? I haven't seen them in a while. Last one maybe two years ago looking for Stripe support. Are they now automatically deleted or something?
[–] joegibbs 3 days ago
"Better not hear any complaining from you, be a shame if something were to happen to your app submission…"