if i had a nickel for every time a tech company used cheap patchover solutions to fix a cp problem they only paid mind to bcs of the ios app store, i'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's strange that it's happened twice
sure, discord and tumblr before it could have actually listened to genuine reports of people posting horrific shit to their site and moderated as is their jobs, but its much easier to just toss up some slipshod code to stop them from being delisted from/re-rated by the app store
theyre not even taking these measures because of the genuine reports by concerned users of this material being uploaded onto the sites going back years, they're just doing it because apple made a fuss about it and they want to keep the revenue flow coming in unobstructed
this isn't to paint apple as The Objective Good Guys in either sitch either though, let me be clear that they're going to burn in hell just the same