Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
EDIT: Looks like they’re back.
“You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”
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.
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.
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess…
They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
I think we’re witnessing a murder
same here:
“Just don’t panic.”
LOL the irony! Again!
Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
Yep it’s broken for me too !
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
laughs in Lemmy
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
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.
