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Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I'll just lock it for now.
I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.
No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.
The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.
“A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.
So... According to Reddit the blackout is the culprit, I guess?
So either it's just an outage and they're faulting the blackout, or the blackout is actually the culprit. Either way I hope this works. However, I'm still not going back to Reddit even if they fix and reverse everything.
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.
i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn't prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior 👌
seems unlikely (to me) that this would be intentional from reddit's side. You'd think they would be VERY interested to see how this really impacts site traffic and how much "protest" they can absorb before taking administrative action against mods/subreddits.
Can I just say, I'm so happy that everybody banded together against them. Like a bunch of strangers on the internet grouping together to tell them, "No, you will not"
Was curious what was happening, was using libreddit and figured they were just being bogged down, but my mobile app doesn't work either. Also anyone know why the upvotes on this post are fluctuating between <10, ~20, 150, 400, etc.? Are they upvote numbers for different instances?
This is one of the things I've always hated about Reddit.
No, Reddit, this isn't my fault. You broke because you're a shitty website held together by chewing gum and prayers. It isn't cute when you blame users for your own shortcomings. You've been like this since the beginning and it hasn't gotten better. Fuck off.
While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying “report created”. I didn’t press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. 😖
Reddit probably be like "we had sooooo many users these days that our servers went out. But we cannot provide any numbers, we lost all the server data"
Idk about other countries but here Reddit is pretty much the only big social media platform that isn‘t overrun by normies and boomers. So people from my country using reddit are either relatively young people that are somewhat chronically online or people or techies.
Now the reddit blackout generated a lot of attention and all the normies and boomers are like „wtf is a reddit“ and go to check it out. So that just ddos‘d reddit.
I have zero evidence for my theory but I really like it.
I mean, if I was a reddit infra engineer (and this is a long shot because I'm not), I would definitely use the "blackout day(s)" for some heavy maintenance or experiments that normally are too scary to do on a high loaded live server.
According to redditstatus.com: “Website failing to load. Identified - We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.”
Where is this from? It says „outages reported“, so it is random people’s opinions? Maybe people believe Reddit is down because their frontpage is empty now?
I wonder if Reddit have done this to get themself some more free publicity (to appeal to the sympathetic person reading it in the news to try and make it feel more important a platform than it is)?
It loaded for me after being down for a bit. My list of subscriptions is dramatically shorter and the 'front page' content is dull to say the least. If this is what it looks like in July, its going to be very easy to kick the habit.