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Facebook engineer fesses up about accidentally blocking Imgur links


Everyone makes a mistake, and it's also better to admit that it was your mistake and it was your fault that you caused the problem, especially when you are working for one of the biggest companies in the world.

So what happened? 

On Monday, Facebook mysteriously begun blocking links from a popular image sharing site Imgur and annoyed users went straight to Reddit. Fortunately, software engineer Matt Jones was quick to respond, explaining how he was to blame for the error and what had been done to fix the social network's link system that was incorrectly blocking legitimate sites. 


Reported by TechCrunch, the original Reddit post quickly generated a number of comments, upvotes and a little bit of negative attention. Thankfully, Jones fixed the problem before it became a hellish nightmare. He also provided the following Imgur-hosted photo along with his apology. 



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