hmmm... are we checking the same page r/popular? normally there is a new post every X minutes and now in the main page there are several >8h posts... I think is definitely noticeable and obvious (not to mention the three posts with information about the protest on very popular subreddits)

maybe you were expecting an empty page? that will never happen, if that would happen reddit admins would reopen subs or even upload random memes to new subs to make it "not empty"

or maybe reddit has local content and we are seeing different r/popular, I'm in Europe

[–] matt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I browse through a privacy frontend (libreddit), but I've never really seen new posts constantly on /r/popular, usually after maybe 30 minutes to an hour.

I definitely wasn't expecting an empty page, but I was expecting it to be... different, but it isn't really, it's just all the same memes / politics posts that I'm used to seeing.

[–] topperharlie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be fair, when I say minutes I meant that I used to check out r/popular several times a day, not every minute, so 30 mins is perfectly possible. Normally I used to see "new content" every time, and quite a few posts, today doesn't seem to "move" that much, although I haven't make a very thorough study, I just woke up 1h ago and checked twice after reading your comments.

Also, most of it is super old (>8h) and the content is quite different, normally there are a lot of "everything" ("good" and "bad"), but today seems like everything is in the "negative" side (AITA, wcgw, dankmemes...) and some other subs that I have never seen. (quoting here since good and bad is very subjective)

But we may have different perceptions and that is fine.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think you're right, it's been a couple of hours now and nothing has moved, I've also gone into some of the reddits still open and they're all restricted, so really there's no content.

I jumped the gun a bit there, now it's time to try and avoid the site indefinitely.