Interesting, from the title I thought it was intentional, as a "forced code review." Apparently not, but now I really like that idea!

Just skimmed the PR, I'm sure the author knows more than I - but why hard code a date at all? Why not do something like `today + 1 year`?

Any time constant will be exceeded someday.

An impossibly short period of time after the heat death of the universe on a system that shouldn’t even exist: ERROR TIME_TEST FAILURE

Classic!

But before you judge the fix too hashly, I bet it’s just a quick and easy fix that will suffice while a proper fix (to avoid depending on external state) is written.

Ain't Mastadon supposed to be the good guys compared to X?

What's with purposefully breaking the browser back button to redirect to the front page? Spammy behavior