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Looks like reddit went down. (downforeveryoneorjustme.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.

[–] Crackhappy 30 points 1 year ago

laughs in Lemmy

[–] twistedtxb 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it

[–] koraro 17 points 1 year ago

Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yep it's broken for me too !

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly seems pretty likely, it's got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"Just don't panic."
LOL the irony! Again!

[–] x_marty97 10 points 1 year ago

I think we're witnessing a murder

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.

[–] SpectralSprites 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests

[–] dingus 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I feel like it doesn't make sense for Reddit to deliberately take down its own site while people are protesting. My bet it's a dedicated pissed off person took down the site.

Edit: Kbin seems to be down too which is interesting.

[–] AteMoonPie 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes me too. I thought it was just my Apollo app.

[–] Gaz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too I thought it had gone down early or something. Using mLem rn for this and it’s very similar to Apollo!

[–] FlaxPicker 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, excited for the full features to arrive on it. Been looking at the road map on their github and it should be a great app once everything gets built.

[–] Gaz 2 points 1 year ago

Sick! Also i'll buy your flax, 100gp ea?

[–] b34k 1 points 1 year ago

Oddly enough, Apollo seems to be working for me…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"You can't take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!"

[–] Gaz 6 points 1 year ago

And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 2Xtreme21 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don’t think they’re that smart honestly. Nonetheless it is hella suspicious…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is really suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.

[–] PotjiePig 4 points 1 year ago

I just realised.. Lemmy can't really go down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Probably doing “maintenance” to obfuscate the fact that almost all of their major subs are dark. We know the truth.

[–] harbo 3 points 1 year ago

They have to be hiding the blackout while they do their best to reassign mods and open subs back up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.

[–] sagittarie 3 points 1 year ago

Right? LMAO! APIs are working... Imagine that.

[–] foxnest 2 points 1 year ago

Lack of traffic could never cause this and also hard to believe it's coincidental.

[–] ConstipatedFox 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

Here is the status page. It briefly loaded for me on Sync, then crashed again. DDoS attack maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

You would need one hell of a botnet to DDOS a site as large as reddit while half its normal users are essentially striking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] zombiepete 1 points 1 year ago

What a shame.

[–] sagittarie 1 points 1 year ago

Hahaha, YES! Burn it to the ground!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] BCas 1 points 1 year ago

This is how we win.gif

Lol

[–] Bretzel 1 points 1 year ago

Just a band of bozos

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah of course – how could they prepare when they had NO warning that hundreds of subs would be going private today?!