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They specifically mention that they did not lose any traffic/visitor numbers: "Important: our overall traffic didn’t change. The same amount of people came to this feature’s page."
It appears as though the "lost users" were really lost interactions with the vote button: "our voting numbers decreased by ~50%."
It's fascinating to me how far people are willing to go when skewing the information to pique interest. I'll bet a lot less people would read it without "lost users" in the title.
As someone who's spent a fair amount of time with hardware, I think this is what will make me tinker with the Alexa service - I am interested to see what it can do and I like keeping up with Amazon's hardware projects. I've got all the parts lying around to throw this together without spending anything, so it's a neat way for them to grab some interest from a different user demographic. This also should be fairly easy to get running on a BeagleBone too, which I tend to lean towards (more I/O, PRU can be useful)
I have ended up every time using my older 10.8 (ML) install USB every time, then just firing off the free App Store upgrade to 10.11.
I do work for some higher ed institutions, and almost every year without fail we have seen (and dealt with) successful phish attempts of various staff members... it's usually something small like a credit card number, but it still amazes me how an email that may look "very suspicious" to me doesn't set of a flag for someone else who isn't really thinking about this type of attack.
Second impression is that it seems like a Swagger Editor tool combined with a REST Explorer (like Postman or Advanced REST Client). Testing now and will update with some more thoughts :)
This article (title included) appears to primarily be "clickbait." I didn't find any part of the piece particularly insightful. There are links advertising their own services/pages to help people with MBAs trying to get jobs, which leads me to believe this was primarily done for traffic
If you had lost 50% of your users, you would have half of the overall site traffic that you had last time.