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Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Reddit hides partial blackout by going full blackout lmao
Sounds silly, but I'm guessing they don't want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
That doesn't sound silly at all.
I meant the comment I replied to sounded silly, I was more explaining why it wasn't silly after all.
Galaxy brain
3D chess
Reddit SysAdmin can protest too, no?
Not legally by sabotaging the infrastructure they are supposed to run, I expect.
But accidents happen, of course...
u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo's dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don't give a spez(fuck) about what's going on with the protests.
But... if this is on purpose...
Strange decision to say the least.
From what I've been following, they haven't been too concerned about this since at least a few weeks ago
Outright telling active partners that they won't help them identify inefficient interactions with the first-party API was a great look.
Yeah - in fairness, they weren't getting paid to, but there are plenty of examples to pick from.
I know and agree with you on that.
But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.
Agree - couldn't resist the snark
100%.. "malicious code in a 3rd party app led effectively to a DDOS attack on reddit.. this is why we must close the API to only allow select approved apps"
It just makes the blackout look more successful honestly. Pretty dumb of them but they haven't been making great decisions lately.
I don't know. My best bet is that it's a happy coincidence for them. It's probably just an actual accidental outage, but it can be spun in a few different ways. Given their push for an IPO, I wouldn't be surprised if this is an excuse for lower traffic numbers. "Hey, look, these guys all went to protest but there was an outage. Nothing correlates the numbers. Now that we're back up on XYZ date, everything is returning to normal! It was no big deal!"
If it actually turns out to be something more nefarious, I can't say I'd be surprised, but I sincerely hope that isn't the case.
Boy, sure would be nice to live in a world where investors weren't dumber than flat earthers.
there may be some unfortunate overlap in those populations, you donβt have to be smart to make money
I can believe that considering how often they have them. I had subbed to outage emails a while back and days where I don't get any are rare.
Anyone feel like Spez is shooting out the lights on his way out?
Probably used the lower traffic as an opportunity to perform "maintenance".
The maintenance in this case is damage control. They spent the time deleting a hell of lot of comments from all over the place.
They definitely don't want their investors to know what's happening.
My money is on a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks are 100% going to happen after what Spez pulled.
That's what I thought first because their infrastructure seems to be shit.
My wife and I were talking about this 2 days ago. She was betting money that weβd see DDoS attacks early Monday.
Is it bad I'd like to see some more
that would be disgusting, but i would not be surprised at this point :/
Even more reason the blackout needs to last more than 48 hrs.
Yeah pretty suspicious tbh
Well a 5xx response wont get delisted from Google as fast as a 403, so there's that possibility.
If you hit a private sub you still get a 200 π
Figures, not checking today... π
> We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
I'm 99% sure those are automated, so it really doesn't say anything.
Looks like it's just access to the platform, not the platform itself. Could be a CDN issue or they could be implementing how reddit is accessed. I'm guessing the former.
I would guess the latter. They're trying to roll out the new pricing tier at the start of next month, so pushing a change about 2 weeks ahead of that seems reasonable.
But I guess we'll see. I doesn't impact me anymore. ;)
Right? Back up now for those who care.
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
Interesting, hopefully that's the case instead of something more... stupid from Reddit. I sincerely hope this is just the community protesting in some way.
Probably better than average.
Oh no! I hope they don't do this indefinitely! It would totally defeat the purpose of them going dark in the first place... ( Ν‘Β° ΝΚ Ν‘Β°)
Would be the perfect time for critical server updates that require downtime anyway ;)
I suspect it's something related to point in time backups or changes to the api to make it easier to put everything back with new mods.