Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
EDIT: Looks like they’re back.
laughs in Lemmy
They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess…
Yep it’s broken for me too !
I honestly wonder if it’s an attempt to hide all the privated subs and the messages they have on their private page. Now instead of seeing what’s going on its just “oh guess reddit down”
Honestly seems pretty likely, it’s got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
If there is no Reddit, there is no statistic on how severe the user drop is due to the subs that went private. That’s probably better for the IPO.
I don’t understand how that’s better.
Wouldn’t it be better to say “these are the users the platform will have” than “we can’t keep our service up so there are no users at all”?
It could be an obfuscation for the drop in overall traffic for sure, but that’s pretty transparent if they try that sort of thing.
same here:
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down
I think we’re witnessing a murder
“You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”
I’m betting they hit some edge case caused by a particular subreddit going private, or a group of subs going private. I’m sure someone’s got a subreddit hard-coded in for health checks or something similar.
Wut? It works for me in a private tab, but as soon as I log in it breaks O.o
Edit: oh, forget it, now everything broken.
I’m wondering if they’re trying to make people think reddit went dark because a server issue not because of the protestSo, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.
Yes me too. I thought it was just my Apollo app.
Me too I thought it had gone down early or something. Using mLem rn for this and it’s very similar to Apollo!
