Its been having issues for days. I discovered as much while deleting all my old post and comments.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.
It's back up again... DANG!
Edit: And DOWN again lmao
Is it possible someone launched a DDoS attack against Reddit?
LMFAO
Itβs funny that it works normally on Apollo for me π
I think it's ridiculous that it's actually the sub blackout that killed Reddit today. How can this happen?
See TheVerge: "Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout"
But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.
If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesnβt typically get much load.
Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.
This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I'm pretty impressed with it so far! I'd love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.
I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of uninformed users are getting blocked from subreddits and are constantly retrying.
They could also be having to check lots of people against the lists of who is allowed in what private subs. Which could in turn cause problems if the code there assumes that usually people are allowed in the private subs they visit and relies on that to be fast.
Not sure that there were any private subs with tens of millions of disallowed subscribers before this morning.
don't worry they will complain ApolloApp for this anyway
"It was u/christianselig's fault for not paying us $20 million uwu"
I hope the major subs stay dark. The only thing keeping reddit afloat is moderators. Without tools the mods would need full time paid positions which is never going to happen. I'd like to see them all burn. Its become a shit show of adds and bots now anyway. Good riddance. I wish someone would incorporate freenets web of trust system to some type of decentralized app like this.
Could they not replace the mods? In the end, donβt they own the subreddits? Who owns the intellectual property?
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Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo's dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don't give a spez(fuck) about what's going on with the protests.
But... if this is on purpose...
Strange decision to say the least.
This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform
From what I've been following, they haven't been too concerned about this since at least a few weeks ago
I know and agree with you on that.
But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.
I'm 99% sure those are automated, so it really doesn't say anything.
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
Interesting, hopefully that's the case instead of something more... stupid from Reddit. I sincerely hope this is just the community protesting in some way.
My money is on a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks are 100% going to happen after what Spez pulled.
That's what I thought first because their infrastructure seems to be shit.
My wife and I were talking about this 2 days ago. She was betting money that weβd see DDoS attacks early Monday.
Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
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