seems unlikely (to me) that this would be intentional from reddit's side. You'd think they would be VERY interested to see the traffic impact to see how this really impacts site traffic and how much "protest" they can absorb before taking administrative action against mods/subreddits.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Given the degree of ... social awareness... They've displayed, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone at Reddit simply thought "this is the perfect time for maintenance!" and they ran with it π
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lmao, its not like the site is being overloaded right now as half the site is private, they are doing this shit on purpose
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don't worry they will complain ApolloApp for this anyway
"It was u/christianselig's fault for not paying us $20 million uwu"
Was curious what was happening, was using libreddit and figured they were just being bogged down, but my mobile app doesn't work either. Also anyone know why the upvotes on this post are fluctuating between <10, ~20, 150, 400, etc.? Are they upvote numbers for different instances?
I believe the upvotes you see on lemmy are stored on your local instance. The score updates as the home instance to the post reports incoming votes.
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I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of uninformed users are getting blocked from subreddits and are constantly retrying.
They could also be having to check lots of people against the lists of who is allowed in what private subs. Which could in turn cause problems if the code there assumes that usually people are allowed in the private subs they visit and relies on that to be fast.
Not sure that there were any private subs with tens of millions of disallowed subscribers before this morning.
We did it ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy
Looks like i'm watching a shit ton of youtube today instead of spending my work day on reddit. any good channel recs?
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While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying βreport createdβ. I didnβt press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. π
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This is one of the things I've always hated about Reddit.
No, Reddit, this isn't my fault. You broke because you're a shitty website held together by chewing gum and prayers. It isn't cute when you blame users for your own shortcomings. You've been like this since the beginning and it hasn't gotten better. Fuck off.
Love to see it. Total meltdown, lol