"Ok guys, if we take the site down they can't have a blackout: It's brilliant!"
-Spez probably
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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...wait, fuck. Lemmy!
Thanks for your good punctuation.
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They're likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They've gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They're not about to start now, especially if they're concerned about costs.
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That would not surprise me in the least.
Id bet their brand new API has a few horrible bugs or the system charging accounts is too slow for the real world.
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Reddit really trying to copy lemmy now
Yeah, seems like a bunch of instances getting the ol' death hug right now
Will save this when there's c/AngryUpvote opens lol
THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN THE SYSTEM... IS DOWN
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The Cheat is grounded!
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I think it's ridiculous that it's actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"
I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.
No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.
The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.
There was some kind of cookie consent popup on old.reddit.com and it said "go to the new reddit to set preferences" or something like that and i clicked it without reading properly and got sent to new reddit.
What a shit website.... I will never use new reddit. Get fucked spez
I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don't know me as well as they could. Also if I'm not interested they aren't distracting
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Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
What is this reddit? i only know lemmy ;)
Readdit, never even heard it
Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
Makers and consumers. At one point an Admin, I think it was Alexis or Yashan, said straight up like 50% of reddit is porn. That was years ago though, and I'm sure they've done what they could to mitigate that.
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i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn't prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior π
This was beautiful and totally unsurprising.
Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Reddit hides partial blackout by going full blackout lmao
Sounds silly, but I'm guessing they don't want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
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u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo's dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don't give a spez(fuck) about what's going on with the protests.
But... if this is on purpose...
Strange decision to say the least.
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I hope the major subs stay dark. The only thing keeping reddit afloat is moderators. Without tools the mods would need full time paid positions which is never going to happen. I'd like to see them all burn. Its become a shit show of adds and bots now anyway. Good riddance. I wish someone would incorporate freenets web of trust system to some type of decentralized app like this.
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But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.
If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesnβt typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I'm pretty impressed with it so far! I'd love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.
While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying βreport createdβ. I didnβt press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. π
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βA significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and weβve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,β spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.
So... According to Reddit the blackout is the culprit, I guess?
So either it's just an outage and they're faulting the blackout, or the blackout is actually the culprit. Either way I hope this works. However, I'm still not going back to Reddit even if they fix and reverse everything.
Do not attribute to malice what can easily be explained by idiocy. It is entirely plausible that their algorithm couldn't handle the most popular subreddits going dark all at once. They likely hard-relegated so many other subs that would appear on r/popular or r/all to lower priority and thus when the higher priority subs disappeared, it couldn't change priorities and cause the crash.
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its a reddit psyop so you go and check and bump the numbers up. stay woke.
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Subreddit mods win. Fatality.
how long was it? i heard about it earlier but when i checked it worked fine
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If you can't beat 'em... Fuck 'em!
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