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HN tends to slow to a crawl every time Reddit is offline, because Redditors come here instead.
Conspiracy theory: Hacker news is actually just a thin layer of code with a subreddit as its back end.
If anyone else is interested in leaving Reddit I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...
Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.
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
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
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.
One thing that could be happening is many clients/bots/crawlers pinging pages that gone private now and that is overwhelming servers.
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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.
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...
Not true! He did not openly admit to doing this. Instead:
* he did it, and told no one at all
* was caught doing it, after people figured it out
* then, admitted he did it
This is absolutely not the same as "openly admitting it".
He did secretly edit comments.
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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
Nobody likes spez and reddit is the worst of the worst in terms of what the Internet could be and what it is. Reddit is where know nothings pontificate as if they were experts on anything and everything while congratulating each other. It used to be a great site, now I'm ashamed I ever used it and I'm embarrassed for people who mention they use it. That said, that meme is propaganda and defamation. Anyone could add a…
Today is the coordinated reddit "protest" day. Some ideas off the top of my head... DDOS activity from pissed off stakeholders related to the protest System ops using their access to further blackout action A botched administrative action to reopen subs
I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.
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That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. 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
Today is the coordinated reddit "protest" day. Some ideas off the top of my head... DDOS activity from pissed off stakeholders related to the protest System ops using their access to further blackout action A botched administrative action to reopen subs
I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.