> why not figure out how to special case them without affecting everyone else is the primary question I would ask myself if I worked on this

The announcement says that using historical data less than 5% of users would even be impacted.

That seems kind of clear: The majority of users will never notice.

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arach 5 days ago | parent [-]

5% of a large number is a large number - this why it's both a significant problem for them and why I'm thinking out loud about the downsides of discouraging good actors who happen to be power users.

that 5% is probably the most creative and excited cohort. obviously it's critical to not make the experience terrible for the 95% core, but i'd hate to lose even a minority of the power users who want to build incredible things on the platform

having said that, the team is elite, sure they are thinking about all angles of this issue

	▲	0cf8612b2e1e 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		5% seems like a huge number of previously ecstatic customers who may suddenly be angry. Especially when it is trivial to identify the top 0.1% of users who are doing something insane.