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…
I think we’re witnessing a murder
Yep it’s broken for me too !
same here:
“Just don’t panic.”
LOL the irony! Again!
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 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.
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.
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.
“You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”
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…
Yes, this is really suspicious.
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.
https://old.reddit.com/ is ok (for me)
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
