I have no evidence of this but here’s an alternative take based on what you describe.
Perhaps there’s a bug in Bumble’s API or app that is preventing the successful captcha from advancing you through the flow
I think it’s a bit too uncharitable to assume malice here. After all, what’s the incentive for bumble to actively keep a bunch of users who aren’t “legit”? Obviously that degrades the user experience and I assume lead to lower revenue.
But also, who made you the arbiter of what a user can put on their profile?
> what’s the incentive for bumble to actively keep a bunch of users who aren’t “legit”?
This is a well covered topic regarding dating sites, and most sites have struggled with this problem. In fact, some dating sites were caught generating fake profiles themselves. And searching for "Bumble fake profiles", it seems this has been a big issue for a while.
Dating sites historically had more men than women on them, and that presented an obvious problem. The women got too much attention, and the men had few women to browse (and received few replies, perhaps because the women weren't interested or perhaps they were overwhelmed with messages).
Sites that have more members (options) are more attractive to subscribers. So more is better, especially when the pool of potential dates is generally considered to be attractive. But what's a site to do if they don't have many members? As was the case for AdultFriendFinder, they can start creating fake profiles. Or they can allow promoters ("members" who aren't there to date but are instead promoting their onlyfans, instagram, or whatever accounts).
> who made you the arbiter of what a user can put on their profile?
If a member exists only to promote their external accounts and presumably has no intention on actually dating someone from the site, then they do not belong on the site. And if the site is making money from subscribers but allowing large numbers of profiles that are not actual date options (because they exist only for self-promotion), then it is a failure of service on the part of the site.
As for the idea of malice, as in the captcha is intentionally designed to prevent actual customer service requests, I would argue that a paid member should be allowed to open a customer service request without any captcha. The existence of the captcha itself is unreasonable if the user is already a paying member. If the user were to somehow abuse the customer service system, the site could simply ban the user and the user would lose their money.
It's not so difficult to imagine that a site which might intentionally allow fake profiles would also want to prevent people from reporting them. The thinking might be, "maybe this user will give up trying to report and just return to browsing profiles". If a fake profile is reported, based on the terms of service, it has to be investigated. And that costs Bumble money. Of course they would like to avoid that.
The answer might be quite complex, especially since the OP is not technical. But, in my experience, it really boils down to this. If you don't have any particular requirements, just go for relational.
This is the NYPost. A huge chunk of their articles sow division in some way.
A few 20 year olds who don't understand how to communicate with people older than them just need to spend a few weeks in the workforce and get educated. They aren't "cancelling" an emoji. This isn't a real story.
You have the golden handcuffs on. Do you feel trapped into staying in that position? Is that also weighing on you?
While my dollar amounts were lower, I have been in a similar situation. I wasn't ready for the leadership role I was in, but they were paying me too well to leave. But this actually led to a lot of my anxiety about it. Once I realized I didn't need the extra money, things became clearer.
0. Talk to a therapist/psych. You may be depressed.
1. Assess your financial situation. How much do you NEED to achieve your goals?
2. Take leave. If the psych diagnoses you with depression, medical leave may be an option. If not, well, you can always just try to take regular unpaid leave at the risk that your job may not be there when you get back (what's your relationship with your employer/boss?). Seriously, take 3 months or more.
3. Start to look for a new job that you think you'll be HAPPY doing. If you're not happy working as a principle or a staff eng now, what makes you think your next job should be that role? You sound like you'd be happier at senior. That's fine! Maybe with more experience as a senior someplace else, you'll find that you're more prepared for the staff/principle level responsibility later on. You think you want to do senior-level work -- so go find someplace you can do senior level work, where you're happy!
Job titles are so different depending on company/industry, it may not look that weird on paper anyway. But you've already proven to yourself and others that you can get promoted and can handle more responsibility (even if at cost to your mental health). You can get there again.
This works fine in android. You can associate your favorite app with the reddit links. There is surprising depth in the settings regarding this feature.
I had this issue for the longest time and was very frustrated. I learned you can hold the link and then click "Open in Reddit" in Safari to get around this.
I’m not sure it’s representative. It has a higher proportion of startups and a lower proportion of established non-tech companies who still often make tech hires
The revoke mail feature has been a feature in gmail for 10+ years (though it probably was a “labs” feature at first). “Undo send”. And there, yeah, it’s just a configurable delay - I use 15s. I’ve used it (and been thankful for it) many times
The fact that you write testable (and tested) code, and that your CI needs are met by simple scripts is a good thing. I personally try to ensure that all CI can be done locally, and that basically forces you to just use shell scripts (or make, or similar — but to keep it simple)
I wonder where the author lives. I am in the US. I picked an airbnb listing at random from the home page:
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/52569310?adults=1&category_tag=...
> $230 night
> $230 x 5 nights $1,148
> Cleaning fee $390
> Service fee $217
> Total before taxes $1,755
The cleaning fee is expressly NOT part of the advertised rate.
Also kind of hilarious the example I landed on has a $390 cleaning fee.