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Just logged into reddit, from Canada, it's not working correctly. I suspect so many subs going dark have unveiled a bug that has broken some algorithms. Here's hoping they are a pain to fix and require a significant reengineering effort. Anyone confirm the same behavior?

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[–] MonkCanatella 86 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maybe they're doing "server maintenance" for the next 48 hours so the blackout seems like it was just planned maintenance lmao

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Server maintenance" while they replace all the mods with scabs.

[–] MonkCanatella 30 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Like the antiwork fiasco. I remember the astroturfing going on where they tried to move people over to "work reform" aka we like work and bosses are good!

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[–] BlankSix 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it is deliberate, I'm pretty sure that'd be a call-our-bluff sort of situation and they'd end up with a longer blackout as a result, at least until the majority of participating mods are replaced/banned.

I'd assumed a minor reverse-reddit-hug, personally - there are a lot of news stories on this today with a lot of links to reddit. Either way, a day in and I'm here and kinda loving it, despite it being a bit ... wonky on posting today with all us refugees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Monday, no long weekend, 10 EDT, perfect time to do maintenance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Messaging doesn't currently support that at all though.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's cloudflare. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

It's taken down Reddit and also Kbin and Hacker News. Good for Kbin, gives them time to up their resources that isn't their fault.

Kinda a hilarious timing really.

[–] STRIKINGdebate2 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kbin and Reddit being down proves that God is on Lemmy's side. Its a sign from the Lord I tell ya.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Odin is with us!

[–] ConstipatedFox 12 points 2 years ago

That's one hell of a coincidence

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I tried to go on kbin to write that reddit was down .. only to discover kbin is down too!

[–] Art3sian 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only correct attitude

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

My instance seems to be going on and off though.

[–] globalboy70 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maybe, this is the day the CEO goes..."hmm, maybe I was wrong, and communities are important to reddit, and the value of free moderation far out weighs my API idiocy", but probable not because CEO tend to be self centered, sociopaths so will most likely double down. Good let's just move to lemmy and mastodon get federation working between them and get rid of centralized corporate internet that always screws their communities after we create the value.

[–] SPOOSER 6 points 2 years ago

And then the ceo thinks: "Oh well, better use this downtime to start finding new mods for communities that wont go back up in two days!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Yup, there's something going on. It's down here too and I've already seen a number of posts on Lemmy about this.

[–] canthidium 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Definitely something going on. Redditstatus.com shows everything operational. I noticed weird bugs yesterday too like images for different posts on the main page. Funny how less users has made it more broken.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

redditstatus.com just updated, now it says that there is a major outage. No specifics though

[–] dimspace 1 points 2 years ago

All the hidden subs has broken every web crawler in the world, so crawler bots have ended up ddos'ing reddit :D

[–] thepenis_mightier 9 points 2 years ago

God. Every time I see "new" reddit, I vomit a little bit inside. Old reddit for life, and I guess this is it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

"Something" went wrong, yeah :)

[–] PriorProject 6 points 2 years ago

Also discussed in https://lemmy.world/post/74649.

I did not call yesterday that reddit would be having worse availability problems than Lemmy today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I mean, is it more likely that they’re trying to save face by breaking the website, that they’re incompetent, or that some angry users are ddosing?

I’d go incompetence, ddos, deliberate in that order.

[–] x_marty97 3 points 2 years ago

Also from Canada, dead on my end too. It's hard to imagine the servers crashing with so much less traffic than usual (even if those servers are probably just a few toasters duct-taped together)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@globalboy70 yes same here. nice job!

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