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Site to track Subreddit's as they go dark (reddark.untone.uk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So they use reddit APIs to check the status? They must be very rich

[–] CarbonWriter@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

According to their GitHub page (their code is all open source), they pull the data from the r/modcoord sub.

r/Modcoord

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[–] Acetamide@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

So after June 30th we will not have an idea about the state of things anymore... :P

[–] ashen@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit is deddit.

[–] girthero@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah I'm getting a "You Broke Reddit" message when attempting to old.reddit.com. I didn't break reddit 'you' broke reddit lol.

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[–] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also a good opportunity to back it up everyone with just not visiting their site. I've added 127.0.0.1 reddit.com old.reddit.com www.reddit.com mod.reddit.com i.reddit.com to my hosts file so I don't accidentally follow a link to Reddit (I think they have a lot more subdomains, so the hosts file based approach isn't perfect, but hopefully good enough for a quick solution).

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[–] reric88@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

This is awesome. We all need to stick together on this one

[–] gronk@compuverse.uk 8 points 2 years ago

I was looking for something like this, thanks for sharing!

[–] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

Community: snoocalypse

[–] Hyperz@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿

[–] PapaTorque@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is great. Some big ones are already dark.

[–] Csynthare@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

R/SquaredCircle just went dark. They weren't even on the list as far as I saw.

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[–] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It does have a pretty big impact on the first day already.

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[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

This is amazing

[–] richie510@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm really confused by the chart on the site https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ I understand the dip annotated with the red arrow, but I do not understand the rebound annotated with the green arrow... With that many sites down, it should not be possible to rebound to normal levels...

[–] RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could actually see engagement staying relatively the same since most people are probably popping Reddit open for a few minutes, maybe engaging, then moving on.

What I do find odd is how consistent Posts per minute are over time. But it doesn't dip or rise with comments. So now I'm wondering how automated a lot of posting is.

[–] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Bots, all the bot posts. If you even check "All" for a bit even on Lemmy you will see the bots are moving here as well.

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[–] Lobemanet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Check for r/argentina, could not find it but it will be dark temporarily, maybe it's because of that. Great site!

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

I just had a quick look on the front page on mobile browser, not logged in, and the top 2nd, 3rd, and 4th 'hot' posts are about the blackout, and the 'top' post is a thank you from the Apollo app creator.

(This is my first attempt at uploading a pic on here so 🤞)

[–] pridefulofbeing@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is great to see. Thanks for sharing.

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Neat thanks for sharing! I've been looking for something like that!

[–] dragonfornicator@partizle.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The notifications contain the wrong amount of members for the subreddit, they all say 5k and below ^^ Not that it really matters, just FYI

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[–] katie@lemmy.tillicumnet.com 4 points 2 years ago

So one thing I've noticed is that /r/videos is still labelled as "public" - I wonder if there's a way to show subreddits that have restricted new posts as well? (Maybe I'm missing the point here)

[–] crank@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a way to see what subs re dark out of the actual total? This looks like it is what % are dark compared to what % are restricted?

In other words I confused what the n is on all of these

[–] karburator@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a way to see what subs re dark out of the actual total?

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com

Choose 'percent' on the third card on the left.

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