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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	13	1	12
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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archargelod·Feb 13, 2025

Someone created an issue in their repo and @ mentioned hundreds of people with two word ragebait message. It is just a feature that sometimes very useful that was used for spam. Nothing new, really. You might've heard about someone accidentally sending email to thousands of people on Github a couple years ago: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24

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jonathantf2·Jun 5, 2022

Looks like the OP is an 18 year old, this is a mistake that anyone could have made and it's certainly not their fault. Scrolling through the comments, some of the behaviour by other users is absolutely appauling. Shout out to this user: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24#issuecomment-114... for the worst possible response to an accident like this.

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

WA·Jun 5, 2022

There have been more PRs created with the same tagging and apparently, you can’t unsubscribe from individual PR notifications or taggings of organizations. That is what this is all about. See: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/26

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

sharno·Jun 5, 2022

Another one was opened after the first issue was closed: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/26#issue-1260958786

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

YPPH·Jun 5, 2022

Someone else has intentionally submitted another. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/26

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

quadrifoliate·Jun 5, 2022

The only notable thing here IMO is the lack of limits imposed by GitHub on notifications. Apparently a random tag of `@microsoft` in the comments was enough to notify 4000 people [1] as well. I have no idea why the user is even being mentioned in this headline. I haven't used GitHub in a while, and am unfamiliar with orgs and subgroups, but tagging a developer subgroup on a PR seems...a reasonable thing for a new contributor to do? How is it their fault that the developer subgroup has been hijacked by this organization to mean "Anyone who has ever signed the Terms of Service To View Our Code"? The correct thing for Epic Games to do here would be to rename the group to `@EpicGames/terms-of-service-signatories`, and restrict `@EpicGames/developers` to people who have requested access to open a PR. Assuming that people should magically know

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not to mention `@EpicGames/developers` in their PRs because Epic is doing some ToS shenanigans is preposterous. I guess I'll be looking carefully at mentions the next time I have to use this social network [2] masquerading poorly as a code review tool to submit a pull request. ---------------------------------------- [1] https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24#issuecomment-114... [2] Looking at the profile of the contributor making the PR tells me that GitHub has apparently decided to let their users independently rediscover the experience of SuperWall on Facebook circa 2007.

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

ansible·Jun 5, 2022

> ... his intentions were probably good ... Are we looking at the same pull request? https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24/commits/4e531d5c... That's ... a super crap PR, hovering near trollish behavior territory.

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

srrkk·Jun 5, 2022

Do not miss out on the essential contribution to Unreal Engine that the first line of the PR here makes: https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

gnufied·Jun 5, 2022

Yeah not sure why calls for getting the poster banned from Github - https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24#issuecomment-114... . Seems bit excessive, murphy's law applies. Also the poster is essentially a kid. I would hold my judgement before flaming him fwiw.

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

iuri1·Jun 5, 2022

This is truly "Epic": https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestrevie...

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

nop_slide·Jun 5, 2022

There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files What is going on?

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

adamnemecek·Jun 5, 2022

Here’s the link https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24#issuecomment-114...

In GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

adamnemecek·Jun 5, 2022Submission

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pfist·Feb 22, 2022

That's because it's technically a private repo. You need to first create an Epic Games account and link your GitHub account, then you'll have access. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

In Unreal Engine 5 is now available in Preview

Mathnerd314·Jun 28, 2017

It's not a book, but if you poke around the Unreal Engine source code you can learn quite a bit: https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/tree/release/Engin... You need to join the org first, https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup

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