Reddit

laughs in Lemmy

Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it

I think we're witnessing a murder

They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.

you would think with the blackouts they would have more resources available.

Yep it's broken for me too !

same here:

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"

And I thought it was my shitty reception at work! Wonder how long it’s going to stay down

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!"

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.

Maybe one of the admins has grown a conscience and turned it off.

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.

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

Here is the status page. It briefly loaded for me on Sync, then crashed again. DDoS attack maybe?

Reddit did go down due to the blackout - their roles database could not handle the requests to private threads. If its a private thread, they need to check if the request is from a person who has the authority (moderator etc) to see them lol