They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I'm honestly wondering about this. Did they kludge in something somewhere that assumes a certain limited functionality on the big subs?
laughs in Lemmy
Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
I think we're witnessing a murder
Yep it's broken for me too !
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"
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.
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.
Reddit hasn't been known for subtly as of late.
But wouldn't the modders response be "well, we'll just extend the boycott for another day or two"?
Honestly seems pretty likely, it's got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
same here:
Does Lemmy have Community banners/icons? This should be it
"Just don't panic."
LOL the irony! Again!
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess...
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down
"You can't take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!"
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.
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
Yes me too. I thought it was just my Apollo app.
Me too I thought it had gone down early or something. Using mLem rn for this and it’s very similar to Apollo!
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.
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