Are the reddit admins incompetent or are they also joining the protest? Place your bets here!

EDIT: Looks like they’re back.

  • @twistedtxb
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    271 year ago

    Where’s that popcorn eating GIF when you need it

  • @koraro
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    171 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    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”

    • BigBorner
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      61 year ago

      If there is no Reddit, there is no statistic on how severe the user drop is due to the subs that went private. That’s probably better for the IPO.

    • Lockely
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      41 year ago

      It could be an obfuscation for the drop in overall traffic for sure, but that’s pretty transparent if they try that sort of thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Honestly seems pretty likely, it’s got to be pretty bad press for them with so many subs going private.

  • @x_marty97
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    101 year ago

    I think we’re witnessing a murder

  • @SpectralSprites
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    81 year ago

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

    • @dingus
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I feel like it doesn’t make sense for Reddit to deliberately take down its own site while people are protesting. My bet it’s a dedicated pissed off person took down the site.

      Edit: Kbin seems to be down too which is interesting.

  • @AteMoonPie
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    71 year ago

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

    • @Gaz
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      51 year ago

      Me too I thought it had gone down early or something. Using mLem rn for this and it’s very similar to Apollo!

      • @FlaxPicker
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        51 year ago

        Same, excited for the full features to arrive on it. Been looking at the road map on their github and it should be a great app once everything gets built.

        • @Gaz
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          21 year ago

          Sick! Also i’ll buy your flax, 100gp ea?

    • @b34k
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      11 year ago

      Oddly enough, Apollo seems to be working for me…

  • Lockely
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    71 year ago

    “You can’t take your subreddit down if the whole site is down! Hah!”

  • @Gaz
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    61 year ago

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

  • BigBorner
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    51 year ago

    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.

    • @2Xtreme21
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      41 year ago

      I really don’t think they’re that smart honestly. Nonetheless it is hella suspicious…

  • Gollum
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    51 year ago

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