wow, turns out I don't think I've ever deleted a forked repo on github? It takes a remarkable amount of pressing "yes I'm sure" and reauthing. I guess it's treated the same as the only copy of a repo, so that makes sense.
@danderson I feel like each additional level of confirmation is like a growth ring on a tree which has somehow survived several support call fire years
@jmc Not to mention the weird dark patterns on every screen to try and override the "yeah yeah click next" instinct. I guess that's not technically a dark pattern, it just happens to wield the same attention tricks...
Picturing github engineer, exasperated, installing a large keyed cabinet, with warnings in slightly the wrong shade of yellow to cause double takes, around a matryoshka of smaller keyed cabinets that surround a single red button.
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