Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
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.
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.
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.
Well a 5xx response wont get delisted from Google as fast as a 403, so there’s that possibility.
Probably used the lower traffic as an opportunity to perform “maintenance”.
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.
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.
Maybe they just ran out of money and their hosting provider shut them down? Reddit was so desperate with these API fees
Nothing more hilarious than /u/spez saying the company is unprofitable right before IPOing
Truly, couldn’t have been better if it had been written into something like Silicone Valley. Just too perfect.
Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.
Makers and consumers. At one point an Admin, I think it was Alexis or Yashan, said straight up like 50% of reddit is porn. That was years ago though, and I’m sure they’ve done what they could to mitigate that.
Sorry, rewriting it, buttons are a bit wonky tonight.
They’re removing NSFW content from the API, and someone yesterday posted about a new lemmy server dedicate to NSFW, if they can take it away from reddit, it will die for sure, tho it’s probably what they want, investors apparently don’t like that kind of content.
Does my post appear deleted to you? It appears deleted to me and I don’t know why, I probably messed with the wrong buttons :(
Pretty sure it’s a Cloudflare issue.
STOP STOP HE’S ALREADY DEAD
