Here is the status page. It briefly loaded for me on Sync, then crashed again. DDoS attack maybe?
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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"
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.
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.
Honestly seems pretty likely, it's got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
But wouldn't the modders response be "well, we'll just extend the boycott for another day or two"?
laughs in Lemmy
Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
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!
same here:
Does Lemmy have Community banners/icons? This should be it
"Just don't panic."
LOL the irony! Again!
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
They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.
I'm honestly wondering about this. Did they kludge in something somewhere that assumes a certain limited functionality on the big subs?
I think we're witnessing a murder
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess...
"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.
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.
Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests
Yep it's broken for me too !
