Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
EDIT: Looks like they’re back.
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They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
laughs in Lemmy
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”
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 would be better to say “site was down for maintenance” than “millions of our users are pissed”
Honestly seems pretty likely, it’s got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
The pretty bad press is already there. Some dude told me it’s on BBC, for example.
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.
But wouldn’t the modders response be “well, we’ll just extend the boycott for another day or two”?
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess…
I think we’re witnessing a murder
“You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”
Probably a bit if this, and a bit of r/popular looking as dopey as fuck filled with dopey posts from the remaining subs.
Yep it’s broken for me too !
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.
Cypress testing if sub is alive. If not, reboot servers.
Repeat
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
Maybe something auto scaled down itself into oblivion because of the lack of load 😂
same here:
Does Lemmy have Community banners/icons? This should be it
“Just don’t panic.”
LOL the irony! Again!my eyessssss
So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.
And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down
Reddit did go down due to the blackout - their roles database could not handle the requests to private threads. If its a private thread, they need to check if the request is from a person who has the authority (moderator etc) to see them lol
Ah of course – how could they prepare when they had NO warning that hundreds of subs would be going private today?!
Probably doing “maintenance” to obfuscate the fact that almost all of their major subs are dark. We know the truth.
