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"

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BigBorner 6 points 3 years 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.

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Lockely 4 points 3 years 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.

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SerJonSnow 4 points 3 years ago

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

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tezoatlipoca 10 points 3 years ago

same here:

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manifex 7 points 3 years ago

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DivergentHarmonics 3 points 3 years ago

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

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x_marty97 10 points 3 years ago

I think we're witnessing a murder

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nieceandtows 9 points 3 years ago

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

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SpectralSprites 8 points 3 years ago

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

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dingus 4 points 3 years 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.

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AteMoonPie 7 points 3 years ago

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

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Gaz 5 points 3 years ago

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

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FlaxPicker 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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Gaz 2 points 3 years ago

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

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b34k 1 point 3 years ago

Oddly enough, Apollo seems to be working for me…

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Lockely 7 points 3 years ago

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

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Gaz 6 points 3 years ago

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

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BigBorner 5 points 3 years ago

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.

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2Xtreme21 4 points 3 years ago

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

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BigBorner 3 points 3 years ago

Yes, this is really suspicious.

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genfood 5 points 3 years ago

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

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PotjiePig 4 points 3 years ago

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

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frone 3 points 3 years ago

Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.

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sagittarie 3 points 3 years ago

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

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harbo 3 points 3 years ago

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

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cowleggies 3 points 3 years ago

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

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foxnest 2 points 3 years ago

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

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Bretzel 1 point 3 years ago

Just a band of bozos

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zombiepete 1 point 3 years ago

What a shame.

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aryabear 1 point 3 years ago

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chadac 1 point 3 years 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.

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BCas 1 point 3 years ago

This is how we win.gif

Lol

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Mstraa 1 point 3 years ago

https://old.reddit.com/ is ok (for me)

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sagittarie 1 point 3 years ago

Hahaha, YES! Burn it to the ground!

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ConstipatedFox 1 point 3 years ago

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

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

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Mstraa 1 point 3 years ago

https://www.redditstatus.com/ This page for status too.

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PrettyFlyForAFatGuy -5 points 3 years 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

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greenfish 0 points 3 years ago

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

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dakr 1 point 3 years ago

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

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