They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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
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.
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.
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.
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!"
same here:
"Just don't panic."
LOL the irony! Again!
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.
Yes me too. I thought it was just my Apollo app.
Me too I thought it had gone down early or something. Using mLem rn for this and it’s very similar to Apollo!
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.
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
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.
Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.
to be fair, it took me 10 minutes to load this page. but a win is a win as they say
Reddit dev joined the blackout >:)
So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.
Here is the status page. It briefly loaded for me on Sync, then crashed again. DDoS attack maybe?
You would need one hell of a botnet to DDOS a site as large as reddit while half its normal users are essentially striking
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.