Alright refugees!
I reckon we need to have a threat to chat. About stuff. With reddit ‘closing’ for the next few days in some cases, and foreseeable in others, I felt like this thread was appropriate.
What are you all up to today? Anything interesting going on? I already know it’s too hot.
I may have accidentally stayed up all night to watch the meltdown and am now dead. Worth it to be there for the moment /r/funny went offline though (at like 5am, omg I am too old for this sort of thing!)
Today is gonna be rough, I have to somehow perk up enough to record a YT video and seem like I’m happy about it.
reaches pathetically for the kettle
What was there to watch? Genuinely curious - I would never have thought to do this because I assume that one minute there were jokes in /r/funny and the next minute it was just a message saying it was private? Or was there more to it than that. Good for you for staying up for it regardless - the world needs more people as committed to the cause as you!
I assume they were watching a website like this one: https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/
Thanks for this, very interesting!
Someone made a site to track in real-time all the subs going dark. On every hour, as new countries ticked over to midnight, there’d been a sudden spate of them all turning off and it was satisfying to watch but also kinda morbid and sad.
Then the site got hit by way too much traffic and wouldn’t stay up, and he had to redirect everyone to watch a stream of it on Twitch instead. Which is now also dead because the last person fixing it when it broke had to get some sleep. There were 13,000 of us watching at one point last night.
TLDR Now you can find a fork of the original site at https://reddark-digitalocean-7lhfr.ondigitalocean.app/ and a working stream with added cute animals here https://www.twitch.tv/rawreporting
Good luck with your video!
2 sugars, strong. Thx