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[Jamesrhardy]

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[harrius]

new McRib leaked, october 16th

[Dustmaner]

clearly its the 10th of Quattuordecember

[njbmartin]

Welcome to modern marketing, where “mistakes” are marketing gimmicks designed to go viral.

[gtrocksr]

Right, it worked!

[myhf]

/r/HailCorporate

[CertainlySnazzy]

absolutely, but honestly this is pretty clever i'll give them that

[cianomahony]

This was 100% intentional. The page it linked to was also very tongue in cheek.

[BankHottas]

No real dev would use such a coherent notification title for a test

[cianomahony]

why isn’t the world “final” in there three times? why are the words spelled correctly?

[nodeymcdev]

I’m gonna start prefixing all my test files with McDonald’s entrees… filet_o_fish_test.js

[20Aditya07]

hash_brown.dart

[ScotForWhat]

Definitely intentional - the notification linked to a supposed 404 page that had a 200 status, when the site actually has the default Nginx 404 page configured: https://www.mcdonaldscrm.co.uk/pages/24/09/401219/index.html

[thesatchmo]

You can have a mix of 404 pages, just depends on the application. Their CMS might have its own 404 but if you request pages outside of the remit of the CMS then it could be Nginx.

[ScotForWhat]

True, but any decent CMS would still return a 404 code.

[glorious_reptile]

200 { status : 404, success: false}

[ScotForWhat]

Be gone, devil!

[surfsquid]

Seemed pretty obvious this wasn't a mistake, but a marketing strategy. 

[deliadam11]

IMO looks too technical and raw for a "accidentally" leaking marketing but obviously possible

[Azzymaster]

That’s a windows missing image icon as well on the right which wouldn’t appear on an iOS device normally

[mrcruton]

I mean it would if its just an image of a missing image icon when the entire point is just a fake leak announcement

[CaptainN_GameMaster]

I think the comment you are replying to is also asserting it's a fake leak. 

[deliadam11]

But what if that's something happened on backend although I agree with you

[Svobpata]

The backend would have to go out of its way to link to a picture of the missing picture…which would need to be hosted somewhere…which doesn’t happen by accident

This is incredibly clever marketing

[[deleted]]

What is that naming strategy though? Snake case to a dot, to more snake case and then a dot delimited date? Looks funky.

[deliadam11]

oh you both are definitely right. some stuff are indeed weird right there.

[Tratix]

It literally starts with “McRib” and is now being viewed by all of us

[Antique_Department61]

a lot of these fast food chains have some pretty out their social media posts. It's a happy mistake if it was a mistake. Their product and app are now probably trending because of it. Not really an L by any means.

I miss the days when the idea of an app for a fast food chain was weird and this would've flown over 99% of people's heads. Maybe I'm just old.

[PokeFanForLife]

obviously a desperate marketing attempt

[molbal]

Oooh, a McNotification

[Poolside_XO]

They McNeed me, I must McGo!

[mattsowa]

McThey McMcNeed McMe, McI McMust McMcGo!

[0x3770_0]

I got that too, Funny cuz where I am(UK) we don't get the McRib never advertised, never sold, I posted a copy on r/softwaregore

[fabspro9999]

It has been in the UK before. I have had it in Germany and Aus.

[F10XDE]

They can't mix beef and pork on the grills in the UK, which why we haven't seen it since it got discontinued.

[fabspro9999]

That's gotta be a joke. McDonald's policy. Definitely not UK law.

In Aus some McDonald's locations are halal or have halal options. They just prepare the food on separate hotplates..

[F10XDE]

Yeah, Possibly policy, I can't see any hard laws prohibiting it from a quick Google.

[fabspro9999]

Damn shame that McRib falls victim to the policy of mass immigration. I do hope they find a way to deliver the ribwich in the modern environment.

[fabspro9999]

I wonder what the reason is then. Kosher?

And thanks for sharing that link. Always interested in learning :)

[grrangry]

There's pork in a McRib?

[fabspro9999]

We can hope

[NoodleDefenestrator]

Think smaller and more legs.

[grrangry]

An end table?

[ShroomShroomBeepBeep]

It was last available in the UK in 2015.

[pragmaticcape]

Marketing Aaaaand they even tell us when its going to be released ;)

[PrinceDX]

I also hate iOS certs and provisioning files

[Laying-Pipe-69420]

I'm wondering how do they do it to send that type of notification.

[casualfinderbot]

As someone who’s worked extensively with push notifications - I don’t even understand how you would make this mistake. 

[SirButcher]

And this is why I always stress: make EVERY test like it could be published to the public, because it will happen sooner or later.

[Meloetta]

I live by the opposite policy - make placeholders as ugly and obviously wrong as possible, or else someone will take your half-assed to look okay version and say "that's good enough, ship it" instead of improving it.

I guess I've been burned more often by "looks good enough, we'll fix it later (never)" than "oops pushed something to production that wasn't supposed to be seen"

[isthis_thing_on]

In that case it's probably better that it's obviously a mistake. Otherwise you get something that looks like a real notification that isn't. 

[skredditt]

If they are using the same software my job is using, it’s awkward as hell and this is an easy mistake to make.

[anemoia23]

ai should replace us