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It is likely related to the blackout due to the reddit CEO being dishonest about the upcoming API pricing changes. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1476fkn/reddit_bl... Er, you will be able to read more at that link whenever reddit comes back online :-/
spez to the investors: > No, you see, it was not a protest, it was simply a small outage, nothing to worry about. Joking aside, I have a few bots monitoring content and I saw ~10% drops in comment activity before the outage (vs. the baseline from last week).
You saw 10% comment drops in subreddits still available or are you saying 10% of comments overall on all of reddit including the privacy subreddits?
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Parent commenter shouldn't have said secretly. That was something he openly admitted to doing. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
I believe the issue the commenter above was taking was that just because someone commits, for lack of a better term, comment fraud, we shouldn't jump to suggesting he's also a paedophile.
It seems many services are experiencing an uptick in outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/
Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry
E.g. many Google searches lead into private communities now. Word is spreading.
Cloudflare is having issues and I noticed HN is going down for me (takes multiple reloads to work) so might not just be them.
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A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago
It's worth noting that a very old user (/u/andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction/feedback/etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Obviously I can't reference the comment in question right now, but I'll try to remember to circle back…
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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.
Maybe it is a regional thing?
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Doesn't seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he's done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn't like or who criticized him.
I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for. EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.
In either case, it’s easily as speculative as the parent comment above, maybe slightly more so, since the parent came from Twitter.