Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Sounds silly, but I’m guessing they don’t want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
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
Outright telling active partners that they won’t help them identify inefficient interactions with the first-party API was a great look.
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.
It just makes the blackout look more successful honestly. Pretty dumb of them but they haven’t been making great decisions lately.
I don’t know. My best bet is that it’s a happy coincidence for them. It’s probably just an actual accidental outage, but it can be spun in a few different ways. Given their push for an IPO, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an excuse for lower traffic numbers. “Hey, look, these guys all went to protest but there was an outage. Nothing correlates the numbers. Now that we’re back up on XYZ date, everything is returning to normal! It was no big deal!”
If it actually turns out to be something more nefarious, I can’t say I’d be surprised, but I sincerely hope that isn’t the case.
Given their push for an IPO, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an excuse for lower traffic numbers. “Hey, look, these guys all went to protest but there was an outage. Nothing correlates the numbers. Now that we’re back up on XYZ date, everything is returning to normal! It was no big deal!”
Boy, sure would be nice to live in a world where investors weren’t dumber than flat earthers.
Probably used the lower traffic as an opportunity to perform “maintenance”.
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 we’d see DDoS attacks early Monday.
Well a 5xx response wont get delisted from Google as fast as a 403, so there’s that possibility.
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
Looks like it’s just access to the platform, not the platform itself. Could be a CDN issue or they could be implementing how reddit is accessed. I’m guessing the former.
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
“Ok guys, if we take the site down they can’t have a blackout: It’s brilliant!”
-Spez probably
They’re likely changing the mod structure during the blackout. A lot of low-paid, repurposed bangladeshi click-farm mods coming in.
Reddit? Paying mods? As if.
They’ve gone 15 years not paying mods for their work. They’re not about to start now, especially if they’re concerned about costs.
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.
for years companies have been trying for “targeted ads” but in rare occasions I see ads, they’re terribly off the mark, like you have mentioned
Companies have been trying and succeeding with targeted ads*
There’s a reason a bunch of the biggest tech companies in the world’s main revenue is these ads, they absolutely work unfortunately.
You’d be surprised to hear, how many users are still clueless and don’t use an ad blocker.
More than half of the surfers don’t use an ad blocker: https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/
Same here. I’ve been using old.reddit with RES and apollo for so long that I forgot reddit even had ads until I tried the official app.
I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don’t know me as well as they could. Also if I’m not interested they aren’t distracting
There was some kind of cookie consent popup on old.reddit.com and it said “go to the new reddit to set preferences” or something like that and i clicked it without reading properly and got sent to new reddit.
What a shit website… I will never use new reddit. Get fucked spez
I don’t even think most of their ads gets interacted often. The small amount of people who are using the official reddit app probably have gotten used to it now so will just wait this blackout out.
I think more people use the official app than you might think. I initially thought everyone was in unanimous outrage, but many just don’t care. I don’t understand how some people know about ad-free third party apps and still use the official one.
Convenience. For the average user it’s just download from the play store and scroll. I agree that lot of people use the official app but they’re used to the ads from other social media apps too probably.
It’s my fault apparently
Always hated that image on the error page. Blaming the user when they are the ones that fucked up. Server errors are never the users fault
we did it reddit
