Enshittification strikes again.
What a fucking shit show. I just tried logging into my account and I can’t even get in because it keeps throwing me into an email code loop. The code arrives, but the website wont take it. I tried to use my password but it keeps telling me “100 Characters is too long, max is 72 characters”. Like what?? I’m not creating a new password. I’ve had this same password for years and I’ve never changed it.
Fuck IGN for ruining what was, at one time, something really good for the community, developers and charity. Just look at how fucking greedy the default distribution of a donation is now
By default these greedy fucks take 6x more than the charity they’re supposed to be supporting. At least 20% of the donation goes to them and you can’t change it. I remember when you could adjust the distribution down to the last dollar. Sigh. Not so fucking humble now, are ya? Fucking pieces of shit
Anyway, thank you for reading my complaining
Honestly fuck the guys who sold it off, too. They knew they were flushing the site down the toilet and took the payout anyway. Make it a coop or something if you actually give a shit about the project beyond enriching yourself.
I can’t even remove my payment option. In Firefox, i cant click the top right menu to get into my settings because the whole menu jumps to the left of the screen when i want to select a menu item (and moving the mouse away lets it jump back, like one of those old joke programs that create a window that dodges your attempts to close it). By random chance i actually hit that one frame i had to get into my settings, and i only see that my payment option is PayPal, with no according settings or a remove button, and only an option to add a new payment option.
WTF.
I really hope this has consequences for the asshats who pushed to release this bullshit.
Edit: just sent them a message. I do not have high hopes, but i have to try and i hope others do too.
I’ll give you a few days to revert this abomination, before i hit you with a GDPR request for every bit of information you chucklefucks have saved about me as a hardcopy in size 36 Comic Sans because of my bad eyesight - and if i receive it and you still run this piece of vibecoded shit on your website, i’ll just throw it in the next dumpster, along with my very long running membership.
FWIW, you can remove their authorization on the Paypal side of things. Paypal settings > Payments tab > Automatic payments, look for Humble and there should be a cancel button next to the “active” status.
I have absolutely zero faith in this new Humble’s security so it’s something I’d recommend canceling on the payment method side regardless. Even if they do vibecode in a remove payment method button there’s a good chance it’s just gonna set a deleted=true on the DB record and do nothing else.
Funny, but if you write something like that, you give them grounds to reject your GDPR requests.
“your rights don’t apply because you’ve been mean”? What are these grounds?
You would hope with all the fucking AI slop code being deployed that TESTING and QA would be having a Renaissance.
You would HOPE.
But AI has solved coding, why would you need to test something that you know will just work?
Big brains let AI do the TESTING and QA as well.
The penny pincher companies that think they can replace a 80k / year dev with AI are DEFINITELY not doing any testing, my friend…
Penny pinchers spending 200k a year on tokens to replace an 80k a year dev. Then they double the workload of the remaining devs as they turn them into code janitors for an LLM.
I think that’s like, the exact requirement to be in a company’s management nowadays
Yep, we could have kept the velocity and used AI to make things much more robust, but no, let’s just throw even more shit at the wall.
Quite literally you could set up a workflow where AI automatically fixes bugs based on QA findings unless it’s determined that an engineer’s input is required, but it seems nobody wants to do that either.
Hang on, I did just get an idea for an AI SaaS to sell to enterprises lmao
What the fuck is Humble doing?
You’d think that a service that prides itself on supporting charities, and calls itself ‘humble’, should naturally be more reasonable.
Nope. With every month it’s becoming clearer and clearer it was never about charities. Just money.
Looks like I’ll be deleting my account as soon as I get to my PC.
Update: There’s no option to delete your account on the new website. There’s also no mention of deleting an account on the Humble Support page. Guess they expected people will be doing it.
Update 2: You can submit a request to have your account deleted on the Submit a request page. Select ‘Humble Bundle Account’, and then ‘Delete Account’.
Once you submit the request, you’ll get an email verification, because Humble needs to “verify that you are the owner of this email address”.
Currently I can login to my account and change the password with no verification, despite previously having 2FA enabled. But as soon as I want to delete it, a verification becomes necessary. Interesting, isn’t it?
Humble was sold to IGN in 2017. Just to accurate set expectations.
Oh, is that why there haven’t been good bundles in nearly 10 years?
I think it was once about charity, but it is just another game platform now.
There’s a special deletion portal support asks you to use:
Thank you for reaching out to us in regards to your account deletion and data removal request.
In this particular case, we ask that you please submit a Data Subject Request at our DSAR Privacy Portal: https://dsar.humblebundle.com/
This will ensure proper processing and tracking of your request. A request using this form will result in the deletion of your account and all data associated with it in our system.
If we delete all of your personal data, it will remove your email address and personal information from your order history.___
For context: Humble Bundle was acquired by IGN in 2017 and the founders are no longer involved.
And IGN is ultimately owned by Ziff Davis.
You’re saying thats a real guy and not a Saturday morning cartoon character?
Its a Corporation
Spaceman Ziff.
That’s when I stopped using Humble Bundle. They ruined the site / service.
Exactly. At some point it was a wonderful DRM free store and then became a steam/epic games retailer.
The unsubscribe link on the email 404s now too, grand
Hey free GDPR fine!
It’s downright unusable. Had to pass multiple Cloudflare captchas to log in, but no 2-factor. The library only shows 5 items at a time now, so it’s 500 pages long for me, which I can’t even sort to only show unredeemed items. Order history just shows order numbers and I have to click on each item to see what I actually ordered. UI elements are randomly strewn about, with no coherent design. WTF Humble.
I’m not sure that the paging even works correctly. I have one game that shows on every page for the first 12 pages.
the library has a subsection for bundles, and opening a bundle shows which keys are redeemed or not. But yea, not really as usable as it was before. I guess 5 rows at a time fits nicely on phone screen, but… is that really the use case here?
The bundles page also doesn’t show Humble Choice bundles though, so those keys are buried somewhere in the neverending list. I have to click past 9 pages just to get past the latest bundle I bought (Mapmaking Bundle).
Bulk download does not seem to work either. I bought the recent crochet bundle and went to bulk download the book and it just failed.
True, just tried it and it’s the same for all the book bundles I bought. Insane of them to push something so broken and untested.
I don’t share many of the same criticisms of HumbleBundle as most, and have been a happy subscriber for a long time.
But wow this shit is unacceptable. Straight up removed 2FA without any notification, allow passwords changes without any security. Insane. I will be cancelling my subscription for the first time in over a decade, this is truly inexcusable security fuck up.
Yeah, same. What the hell!?
I just went and had a look and it’s even worse than I expected. No 2FA and the login process is: asks for username > have to click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > do you want to use your password or some other bullshit? > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot > enter password > click the thing to confirm you’re not a robot. So twice as annoying as having to use 2FA without any security benefit. Some menus and items in the menus just straight up don’t work. It doesn’t even look nicer at all. And they’re currently selling a book bundle about AI Cybersecurity lol.
Just cancelled my membership as well. As others have noted already, they’ve gone waaaay downhill since the IGN purchase last decade. I would normally just skip a month as sometimes they’d have one or two games I had fleeting interest in. I am beyond sick of vibe/slop coded crap and I wish I could snap my fingers to erase it all.
Damn… 2017 is already almost a decade ago…
More like Fumble Bundle, am I right?
Fumble Mumble
Frontal Butthole
yep, my account didn’t ask for 2fa when logging in.
Bold move to remove security features without notifying users.
They did add a way to download the entire contents of a bundle in a single zip file, instead of a gazillion separate downloads.
This will make getting all my content off easier for the inevitable closure of their site.
How…? There’s no option to see old bundles
You have to go to your library, and there is a bingle tab.
This FUCKING vibe coded slop logs you out if you don’t use it for a while or close the tab… What a joke
No? I see “purchased” or “bundle” but neither offer a download of the whole as zip. Bundle tab has no choice bundles, and are like 12 random bundles
Purchased tab shows <game> <date> choice but is a single game and not the choice month
What a shit site now…
Edit: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THEY CAN’T EVEN CODE A SESSION BECAUSE IF YOU CLOSE THE TAB, IT LOGS YOU OUT
In each bundle there is a button for downloading everything which fails once or twice, then provides a zip file, although it seems to have a 2 GB limit or something like that, so basically any PDF bundle you have to download one at a time.
I don’t see any option for downloading everything.
I’m sure that since this is vibe coded fixing it will be fast, and everything will be perfect in a day or so. 😑
My account > library
Each is a single game with key
That’s a limitation of Steam though, isn’t it?
I activate every game in a bundle when I buy it (which I do like once every 3 years), even though I usually am only interested in 1 or 2 of them. I give the ones that I already have in my Steam account to my son. 😅
I’m not looking forward to when Steam gets enshittified or otherwise goes pear shaped. 😟
^ excepting the reports in this thread stating that it is broken, too.
Yeah it’s shit. I can barely get it to work downloading eBook bundles.
I used a script a couple of years ago to do the same thing. Nice they added a method that anyone could use.
You can request account deletion here:
support.humblebundle.com/hc/en-us/requests/newEdit: Thank you for reaching out to us in regards to your account deletion and data removal request.
In this particular case, we ask that you please submit a Data Subject Request at our DSAR Privacy Portal: https://dsar.humblebundle.com/
This will ensure proper processing and tracking of your request. A request using this form will result in the deletion of your account and all data associated with it in our system.
If we delete all of your personal data, it will remove your email address and personal information from your order history.
Would be tempting, but I don’t want to lose access to my unredeemed keys and DRM-free items. Not that I can even find those anymore, with the redesign being as shit as it is…
remove your payment options, especially if you have connected PayPal, I removed it directly from PayPal because at this point I cannot even trust them to delete them correctly…
If you used a card (thank god mine is virtual) you can’t even remove it! Just add another or go fuck yourself
You should redeem your keys and save them when you get the chance. There’s been some games humble bundles stopped providing keys for when requested.
