Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
EDIT: Looks like they’re back.
They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
laughs in Lemmy
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
Yep it’s broken for me too !
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess…
I think we’re witnessing a murder
same here:
“Just don’t panic.”
LOL the irony! Again!
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
“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.
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”
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.
Reddit hasn’t been known for subtly as of late.
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.
And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down
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.
For me it doesn’t work too. Neither via Apollo nor via website. Haha.
They want to avoid having statistics how far it went down after the blackout. For the IPO, I bet.
I really don’t think they’re that smart honestly. Nonetheless it is hella suspicious…
So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
