I think it must be some kind of “fall-back” code which is used for development servers or test sites that somehow managed to get live. That would make sense to me. I believe it was a server update that caused the booming issue but I’d be lying if I say that I understand how this could happen!

My guess is that there are parts of the code that are not on GitHub. For example, some accounts are blocked from the front-end - I suspect that this list isn’t there…?