Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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laughs in Lemmy
They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.
I think we're witnessing a murder
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess...
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
Yep it's broken for me too !
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 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!"
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.
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
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.
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!
Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.
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
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
Ah of course – how could they prepare when they had NO warning that hundreds of subs would be going private today?!