Reddit

They couldn't handle the lack of traffic.

laughs in Lemmy

Where's that popcorn eating GIF when you need it

Shutting the site down is one way to avoid the protests. I guess...

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

I think we're witnessing a murder

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"

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.

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

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

Yep it's broken for me too !

same here:

I just realised.. Lemmy can't really go down.

"You can't take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!"

Let's fire 90 random workers, what could go wrong?

I think it has to do with Cloudflare issues. I can’t load Kbin and am using fedia instead right now too.

https://reddit.statuspage.io/

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

Wonder if a dedicated protestor may be putting in some extra effort and bogging the site down with crap requests

Probably doing “maintenance” to obfuscate the fact that almost all of their major subs are dark. We know the truth.

So, Reddit is basically participating, in the black-out. Nice.

Oh shit I might have broken the website. For the blackout, I put Reddit on my PiHole DNS blacklist, so it's not loading by accident when clicking some links or bookmarks.

And now on https://reddit.statuspage.io it says:

🍿

We did it Reddit! 3P preview for the end of the month:

They probably are taking advantage of the blackout to do some maintenance.

This is how we win.gif

Lol

Yet RIF is up and running smoothly.

https://old.reddit.com/ is ok (for me)

I bet that it crashed due to the surge of traffic of gawkers visiting to see the black out.

Reddit dev joined the blackout >:)

Lack of traffic could never cause this and also hard to believe it's coincidental.

Just a band of bozos

They have to be hiding the blackout while they do their best to reassign mods and open subs back up

Maybe pretend to have server issues while they eminent domain all the blacked out subs

It looks like they need to reboot to turn the subs back on /s

Yes me too. I thought it was just my Apollo app.