I would be hilarious if this were their shitty app ddosing their servers, because they drove all the subreddits away.

I just saw this on my regular news sites and laughed.

Just waiting for news out of Wall St saying the IPO has been cancelled. :)

"We're offline working to restore access to subreddits that went private for some reason" - Reddit, probably later today

"What we had today wasn't a complete drop in traffic, engagement, and a resulting significant downturn in the number of served ads, caused by the major boycott we're in the middle of, guys, that was just a major outage. We still have great expectations for the IPO."

-- spez, probably

for me it works again. The old reddit seems fine as well

literally blocked reddit on adguard and moved here heh

It's such a shame - I used Reddit for many years and found so many helpful people that helped me with many things - fixing my motorbike, improving my 3D prints or saving my plants. I hope we can establish similar kind of community in the Fediverse.

I guess that's what we get for trusting too much in a company - decentralised open source software is way to go. Even if somebody in this particular instance will go fucking insane and will decide to raise it to the ground, whatever, the project lives on and you can just go somewhere else.

FWIW this might be related to a Cloudfare outage: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

I wonder if this is coincidental, or if some people are taking it upon themselves to DDoS them or something. I hope it is the former as that would be absolutely hilarious, and can't be used as further justification for their continuing BS.

this is the "and find out" stage

~~Hackernews is down for me too~~ nvm its back up

Can't have a black out if the site is not online points to temple

Makes me wonder if it's on purpose to hide the blackout...

The blackout is pretty dang short though, inconsequential I reckon

🤣

I'm curious about why the most popular subreddits going private would stress out their servers. Wouldn't that reduce load?

They might be getting DDoSed.

Another possibility is that many of the closed subreddits link to a single thread in Save3rdpartyapps for an explanation. That page was returning gateway timeouts over the last few days. Since it has tens of thousands of comments, the sorting algorithm might be timing out from people visiting that particular page.

Reddit has entered the "Fuck round and find out" portion of their journey.

Oh no 😱

Anyway.

Lol and, I cannot stress this enough, lmao.

Beehaw is getting hammered with traffic and is really slow today. I wonder if there's been a mass exodus to Lemmy...