Ping service block: June 13, 7:56 a.m. to present

[RiversideRocks]

A talk about the new ping services

As you may have heard, Glitch has blocked all standard pinging services for the time being. This was done for a reason, likely to lower the AWS bill and give the engineers at Glitch time to solve the issues that are happening at Glitch. I fully support Glitch for doing this because they knew how much backlash this would get (one of the most well know Glitch projects, awake.glitch.me, is an autopinger), however, they knew it was the right thing to do and they did it anyway. However, as Glitch pr…