
… wrong. It’s common etiquette to be present in our engineering chatroom as you deploy your changes. Our bot announces when the deploy starts and completes and the engineer announces they have verified their changes in production. During this time the engineer is also responsible for watching the metrics to make sure nothing bad happens.
But Facebook changed that. It stunted this natural, gentle process of growing apart and losing touch. Now the default is to stay connected with everyone you’ve ever friended forever. And to break that connection, you have to actively sever it. Something most people don’t like doing, and don’t like having done to them, so it generally doesn’t happen.