Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!
EDIT: Looks like they’re back.
They couldn’t handle the lack of traffic.
laughs in Lemmy
Sad in kbin.social
“Technical work is in progress, please come back in 30-40 minutes.”
Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it
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.
Honestly seems pretty likely, it’s got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.
you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.
Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess…
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.
Yep it’s broken for me too !
same here:
“Just don’t panic.”
LOL the irony! Again!
And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down
I think we’re witnessing a murder
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, excited for the full features to arrive on it. Been looking at the road map on their github and it should be a great app once everything gets built.
I just realised… Lemmy can’t really go down.
They can’t get all of us
They say everything is fine: https://www.redditstatus.com/
“You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”