The Crowd 318: Sloppy Seconds

Hi Crowd! Rabbit rabbit. As a quick follow up to the last post, Twitter Dot Now is already dead or down or on vacation or dead. For the few hours it was up it was really fun and a bunch of people jumped in and it seemed like old times, then it started crashing and people started spamming and everyone noted the “team” whoever that is were terrible at communication and the app looked like it was vibe coded and falling apart under the weight of it all they weren’t giving any useful feedback and then poof. There’s of course no way to contact anyone, no info or updates or status pages or accounts elsewhere or anything, so maybe we all just lost the $20 we had to spend to sign up? Fun. Speaking of Twitter-related vibe-coded slop, Grokipedia which was supposed to be the X (or XAI) central point of all knowledge is seemingly dead now too with no edits or updates since April, and no announcements about that. Sadly related, I decided yesterday to shut down Quicky, the vibe-coded project I…