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The blackout also was also the cause behind a general Reddit outage this morning, during which all content on the site was inaccessible — a Reddit spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that "a significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues."
Any guesses on why switching things private might cause predictable issues? Wouldn't that be easier than loading the content? Plus it would discourage further browsing.
I'm guessing a lot of them all at once requires all the various CDN caches to be refreshed, so higher load on the database(s)
I saw someone speculate elsewhere that it could be that some high-profile subreddits were hard-coded for the front page, and them going private could have crashed the system. That would be a bad implementation, but is a reasonable explanation for why everything stopped working.
That too! All boils down to the unexpected. Reddit back in the day was always crashing too, only really remember it being stable the past few years
I'm glad, hopefully it's more pressure on reddit to change their tune, we will see though
Different perspectives, I estimate reddit have realised that they can do literally whatever they want - And most users don't care. Compare the engagement in the community regarding this matter by number of reddit users.
And for those who do care INTENSELY, most of those users will be back in two to three days!
At this point it seems akin to the sort of psychological dependence I've seen in abusive
After using reddit daily for 10 years I will only consider going back if RiF will continue to work. I moved on from wow after years there, moved on from Facebook, moved on from Twitter, and moved on from Instagram. I don't see why reddit would be any different.
Abusive relationships. Sorry for cut post, this Jerboa android it just jumps around is literally the worst app for editing text I've ever used.
If only there were some 3rd party app developers looking for a new project…
We shall see once the apps stop working. I keep instinctively running RIF of my phone and there is content, even if some subreddits are down. Once RIF goes dark I won't have that instant click and who knows when I'll be back. If I have to browse to a site, then it doesn't have to be Reddit.
I took the app off my homescreen, just to try to wean myself off of it, instead of having to go cold turkey at the end of the month. Lemmy is my crutch now, but I kinda hope I don't get as addicted anyway.
I hope they keep making bad decisions and more people move to decentralised platforms.
If there’s one thing Reddit’s known for, it’s checks notes listening to community views and responding with policy improvements
You had me right up to “improvements”….
They are definitely " improving " the default reddit app with their planned advert updates