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A bug saved the company

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379 points ingve | 2 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lylejantzi3rd ◴[26 Aug 25 10:36 UTC] No.45024716[source]▶
Am I the only one who thinks that describing this as a "bug" sounds a bit off? Most bugs don't come with their own updated alert text. It sounds a bit more like they had planned to switch to a different trial method and enabled it earlier than they expected? Or maybe a "rogue" employee added the feature as an experiment and didn't tell anybody?
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1. gus_massa ◴[26 Aug 25 10:59 UTC] No.45024874[source]▶
Option 1: they had a minnutes and days funcion and someone typed days and minutes.

Option 2: they chech every 15 minutes if the trial time is over, so an inmediate expiration is notuced 15 days later. And 15 days - 15 minutes is a coincidence.

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2. samwhiteUK ◴[26 Aug 25 14:35 UTC] No.45027139[source]▶
15 days/15 minutes is not a coincidence at all. They were both present in v1.5. For 15 days, usage was unlimited. After day 15, recordings were limited to 15 minutes.

In v1.6, the 15 days was inadvertently removed. This meant that the 15 minute limit was in effect from day 0.