Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
laughs in Lemmy
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
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”
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.
Honestly seems pretty likely, it’s got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
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.
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
same here:
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!”
So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.
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.
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!
Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.
