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HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
Twitter doesn't seem affected though.
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
Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.
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Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.
That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into.
Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789
So... I visited Reddit before coming here and finding the HN thread... Most of the site is rebelling, but I took the time to visit, intending to give them impressions, just to see how they are holding up. And of course they aren't really holding up as we can see. But their handling is unbelievably tone deaf - I was greeted by the message that I broke Reddit. They gave me the grade of 'F'. I refreshed the page and the…
HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.
The Lemmy instance I’m on has also slowed to a crawl.
It's as if Reddit had been taking the pressure off the rest of the internet all this time, and now that there's a blackout people actually starts working and visiting other websites
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
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 :-/
No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.