The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I'm pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.
If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it's shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.
undefined> The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I’m pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.
Because "master race" is a broadly known term, compared to a niche video game review. As I stated I am out of the loop having not seen this Witcher 1 review.
Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren't interrupted too much...
Most will shut down on June 30 when reddit is overcharging to use the api, essentially to force them out and make you use their app with tracking and advertising.
A possible problem is that they would be forced to find new volunteers to run them. While I bet there's many who want to be "gods" I bet it's harder to find people who can do it well enough to run a 10+ million forum. Especially hamstringed by reddits lack of modtools.
So sure, Reddit can remove the mods and do it multiple times but it will continuously lead to a worse experience and sooner or later an unacceptable amount of spam, hate and CP will cause the advertisers to pull their ads.
This is absolutely true. There are often calls for 'anyone want to mod' on even smaller subs... and you know, it sounds fun to a lot of folks at first. But if you've ever actualy been a mod, even of a smaller community online? It loses its appeal very quickly.
I’ve seen plenty of communities where it’s clear that the mods only stop by from time to time and they get by just fine, spam and malicious posts will still be a small minority. Some set automod on a shoot first, ask questions later setting where all reported comments get deleted until the mod restores them.
I really don’t think finding new moderation will be an issue. As much as it would be nice for Reddit to be screwed over by the mods it’s going to be a non-issue for them, there’s already measures in place to prevent subreddit parking and plenty of willing volunteers.
I was thinking the same thing. Probably why the timeline is so fast too with only giving people a month's notice of the API costs. And could also be true of twitter.
ChatGPT and other LLMs are gaining a lot of value from information freely available online and sites with large user generated text submissions like Reddit/twitter want a piece of the pie.
The problem with this line of thinking is "why is 3rd party API data any less valuable than 1st party API data for AI training?" While this may be true, I don't see this particular move being motivated by AI. They still have all the API calls and interactions even if they aren't being made by Reddit's own apps.
I may be wrong here, but what I mean is they have ways to stop LLM companies from web scraping all of Reddit. The only other way the likes of chatGPT can get all the info is through to API which is currently free. So I think Reddit might be doing is saying this information isn't free so pay X amount for access to our data.
Obviously 3rd party apps like Apollo won't pay that, but Google and OpenAi probably will.
I'm not too sure what you mean by api data being worth less or more, it's all the same data.
Sadly, I think you're right. And with the wild number of bootlickers out there, they'll be able to find new mods for those subs in a matter of minutes.
Edit: which will be hilarious since all the good mod tools are 3rd party 😂😂😂
I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit
Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.
At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.
Surprised r/programming went dark, considering its got multiple admins moderating it. I didn't think they would, and they didn't mention anything before I left
As a longtime subscriber to r/wowthissubexists, nothing surprises me anymore. There's a Lemmy equivalent to that, apparently. I'd link it, but I'm so green here I'd probably foul that up. Worth a search at browse.feddit.de though. That was one way to occasionally discover unique communities I never would have thought to look for. Hopefully it takes off here too.
Mine isn't empty, but it's very different from normal. Still lots of stuff with lots of upvotes, but it's just so off. If I didn't know about the blackout stuff, I would've noticed something was up still.
IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)
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
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.
I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual.
I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.
Indeed, I almost lost 9 full years, lol. That's alright, though. I really like Lemmy and I see that other like-minded folks are migrating as well. Please forgive our traffic! We hope to integrate smoothly
How much Karma? Older accounts seem to sell for more on Ebay. It might take longer though. Search "Reddit" on ebay and you will see some listings. If you go to completed and then sold, you can see some accounts that recently sold. There was an 11 year account I was looking at the other day that sold for $70
Deleted my icon from my homepage for sync on Saturday evening. Have had the odd craving but have managed to fill time with stuff I've been slacking on.
It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!
It might not be affecting the general population of reddit, but I'd hazard to guess that it is affecting the moderators significantly. You only need to piss off the moderators enough for them to take their sub(s) private.
That probably won't last given Spez's bullshit, but I gotta say, Lemmy is looking pretty promising. The Jeroba mobile app is a little underwhelming though, voting and replying to comments is a hassle. Maybe the RIF dev will make a Lemmy app or help improve Jeroba.
At least on Android, I can't respond to or vote on responses that show up in my inbox. Clicking on the message itself does nothing instead of taking me to the message. The UI definitely needs improvements in usability but it's still very much in development as far as I could tell.
I think it's having trouble keeping up with the rush of users. I'll admit though it's pretty frustrating that my upvotes don't register. I get "timeout" after a few seconds.
Yeah it's really slow right now. Like you, I assume it's because of an influx of new people but took me like a minute to just log in. Hopefully it's not as bad once the rush of people starts settling
I personally like the clean presentation, but I would definitely be happy compromising with it being a setting we can choose, and defaulting to it being visible - sitewide, not just in the inbox.
Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I'm thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I'm good with it.
I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens
Noticing that the total subreddit count is going up. Not nearly as fast as they’re going dark, but wonder how many duplicate sub’s are getting created. Or is it something more nefarious being done my the admins?
There's currently 4,5k people watching the twitch stream. I bet there are several times that amount of people trying to access the webpage directly. It's just being hugged to death.
The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I'm pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.
If nothing else its forced people to consider the need for an alternative and to open their eyes to places like Tilde/Lemmy/Kbin/etc. It may not be much now, but over time if reddit continues it's shitty behaviour and people now know these alternatives exist, more and more people can move over.
What's Tilde? Tried looking it up but all that comes up is a software firm and a translator app.
Tilde is a Reddit wannabe. It's the same kind of centralized, monolithic site that Reddit is, but its management hasn't gone full asshole (yet.)
Then it's useless. We need Fediverse alternatives not to keep jumping between proprietary monoliths that will be enshittified once people are lured in
That is why having several instances is useful, if we dont like one we can change to another one
Tildes is a Reddit like site, I have not used it enough to tell you more, but here is the address. https://tildes.net/
If nothing else it's been very entertaining.
At the very least it's a big fuck you to spez.
Plenty of those lol, Spez is a fucking jackass.
It's at least something... If the userbase and Mods protests against the platform practice it must be a very frustrating thing.
Reddit's CEO seems to be hardcore about it, still. Little Musk as I call him ;P
Agreed, it’s unlikely that anything will change with the current management. Just sucks in general
I'm pissed about r/pcmasterrace not protesting. Anyone knows why?
in general I would assume any subs not participating are run by mods who value their mod status more than the quality of their community
Because the only people left there are the ones that forgot it was a joke.
undefined> The amount of dark subreddits is wild. I’m pessimistic that this will create any meaningful change on the platform, but really hoping either way that alternatives not backed by corporations will grow and compete.
yeah looks like it is
subreddit named after Nazi propaganda has bootlicker mods, wow, what a surprise
"subreddit named after Nazi propaganda"
Please.
r/PCHerrenrasse must have been taken.
And a grammarnazi is a person who kills jews that dont respect grammar rules.
Wat
"master race"
But that comes from a joke from a Witcher 1 review. How can you compare one with the other?
I guess I'm out of the loop. When I hear master race I think of white supremacy, not a Witcher 1 review
Why assume the worst?
Because "master race" is a broadly known term, compared to a niche video game review. As I stated I am out of the loop having not seen this Witcher 1 review.
Must be a console user.
lmao, wat
Just wanted to say that's a very nice and clean looking page.
Seeing some subreddits go private as a pop-up in the bottom right while on the site gave me a weird sense of apprehension...
Reminds me of the scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, where people are watching their galaxies go "foom".
I enabled the sound notification, since I'm wearing headphones, and that made it even more eerie.
Yeah, me too - ting!
nice to see a hitchhiker's reference!
Freaking spooky. Cyberpunk, even.
Wow, you can't even login to reddit to check what subs are black now. Must be getting hammered to death...
Unexpected attack on reddit? Hopefully it just makes the admins more butthurt that their userbase rejects their choices, but also, hopefully the subs that did stay open (to help people, like r ukraine or self help subs) aren't interrupted too much...
I can open r/ukraine on RIF. 3rd party apps still work.
that's irony
Most will shut down on June 30 when reddit is overcharging to use the api, essentially to force them out and make you use their app with tracking and advertising.
Yeah, that's why I'm here. Ironic that the current status is that the site is down but 3rd party apps work..
Site seems to be back up now.
Ironic.
Don’t even want to login to give them a hit.
Same
Reddit is just boycotting itself. Nothing to see here
spez probably got butthurt at the blackout and decided to blackout everything instead.
So are subreddits still planning to stay shut for only 2 days or are we extending that? Because 2 days does not seem enough for this.
A lot of subreddits will stay closed indefinitely.
A possible problem is that they would be forced to find new volunteers to run them. While I bet there's many who want to be "gods" I bet it's harder to find people who can do it well enough to run a 10+ million forum. Especially hamstringed by reddits lack of modtools.
So sure, Reddit can remove the mods and do it multiple times but it will continuously lead to a worse experience and sooner or later an unacceptable amount of spam, hate and CP will cause the advertisers to pull their ads.
This is absolutely true. There are often calls for 'anyone want to mod' on even smaller subs... and you know, it sounds fun to a lot of folks at first. But if you've ever actualy been a mod, even of a smaller community online? It loses its appeal very quickly.
Real-world equivalent: “You should run for HOA President!”
Or, union president. Or pto president. Or fucking president of anything else that's volunteer run. Just. No. Some things aren't worth it.
I am curious how much time you would say a mod spends a day modding
I’ve seen plenty of communities where it’s clear that the mods only stop by from time to time and they get by just fine, spam and malicious posts will still be a small minority. Some set automod on a shoot first, ask questions later setting where all reported comments get deleted until the mod restores them.
I really don’t think finding new moderation will be an issue. As much as it would be nice for Reddit to be screwed over by the mods it’s going to be a non-issue for them, there’s already measures in place to prevent subreddit parking and plenty of willing volunteers.
I was thinking the same thing. Probably why the timeline is so fast too with only giving people a month's notice of the API costs. And could also be true of twitter.
ChatGPT and other LLMs are gaining a lot of value from information freely available online and sites with large user generated text submissions like Reddit/twitter want a piece of the pie.
The problem with this line of thinking is "why is 3rd party API data any less valuable than 1st party API data for AI training?" While this may be true, I don't see this particular move being motivated by AI. They still have all the API calls and interactions even if they aren't being made by Reddit's own apps.
I may be wrong here, but what I mean is they have ways to stop LLM companies from web scraping all of Reddit. The only other way the likes of chatGPT can get all the info is through to API which is currently free. So I think Reddit might be doing is saying this information isn't free so pay X amount for access to our data.
Obviously 3rd party apps like Apollo won't pay that, but Google and OpenAi probably will.
I'm not too sure what you mean by api data being worth less or more, it's all the same data.
I'd like to see the mods wipe the subs on their way out if reddit continues to ignore the community.
Sadly, I think you're right. And with the wild number of bootlickers out there, they'll be able to find new mods for those subs in a matter of minutes.
Edit: which will be hilarious since all the good mod tools are 3rd party 😂😂😂
these subs will turn into dumpsters due to lack of moderation and people hopefully will leave
That sends even more of a bad message to the users and I would expect even more people to leave due to all the fuckery going on.
I think at least some are waiting to see how reddit responds but I'm guessing they will continue to ignore the community and carry on with their bullshit
Two major subs called /r/technology and /r/programming just went dark. This seems to have reached great levels now considering that CEO /u/spez himself is a senior mod on /r/programming sub.
At this point, I think the most visited and interesting subs are already down on reddit, love to hear any exceptions which are still up and running.
AskReddit is still up, despite the number of posts I've seen on the subreddit asking for it to join.
Also /r/technology and /r/programming went dark only after lot's of pressure from all sides and other subs.
Surprised r/programming went dark, considering its got multiple admins moderating it. I didn't think they would, and they didn't mention anything before I left
i think the mods made a post and said they want to stay ‘neutral’.
Congrats to...checks notes.../r/earfetish for being the 1000th to go dark lol
lmao!
I have learned about so many subreddits that I really wish I hadn't, today 😅
As a longtime subscriber to r/wowthissubexists, nothing surprises me anymore. There's a Lemmy equivalent to that, apparently. I'd link it, but I'm so green here I'd probably foul that up. Worth a search at browse.feddit.de though. That was one way to occasionally discover unique communities I never would have thought to look for. Hopefully it takes off here too.
That and seeing old friends go away.
I just checked all and popular, the top posts are all about the blackout. It did feel a bit empty, which is good.
I have multiple reddit accounts and on one my front page was literally blank so it depends on what subs you look at
Mine isn't empty, but it's very different from normal. Still lots of stuff with lots of upvotes, but it's just so off. If I didn't know about the blackout stuff, I would've noticed something was up still.
IDK, seems quite dessert in my end. From my subscriptions most are gone (except vim, vulkan, accidentalgimbli and some very small ones, shame on them) and the front page (edit: r/popular) looks very empty too, with very little posts (many of them from "not too nice" communities anyway, like there was an attempt, publicfreakout and such, which is kind of on brand)
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
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.
I don't know if you've noticed, but all the top post from today and yesterday are reposts of previous top posts. More so than usual. I might have tightened my tinfoil a bit too much, but it think the Reddit staff is busy posting popular posts to make it appear alive to oblivious and new users.
8 years, 11 months.
I'm going dark in solidarity. 100 minutes to go in my time zone.
Goodbye, u/mutisi0n. Goodbye, Reddit. It's been real.
almost 13 years for me, which is kind of wild to say out loud.
going out in a blaze of mediocrity is pretty on brand, given how the site has been dying a slow, bloated death the last few years
You’ll be ok! It’s time to move on!
Indeed, I almost lost 9 full years, lol. That's alright, though. I really like Lemmy and I see that other like-minded folks are migrating as well. Please forgive our traffic! We hope to integrate smoothly
I've read about selling the account, does anyone have more information? My account is 14 years old, it might be worth something.
How much Karma? Older accounts seem to sell for more on Ebay. It might take longer though. Search "Reddit" on ebay and you will see some listings. If you go to completed and then sold, you can see some accounts that recently sold. There was an 11 year account I was looking at the other day that sold for $70
Not that much Karma, I almost never posted, only commented :(
Deleted my icon from my homepage for sync on Saturday evening. Have had the odd craving but have managed to fill time with stuff I've been slacking on.
So thank you reddit for your money grabbing move.
I'm one of the new Lemmy users, fleeing from the sinking ship that is Reddit. Hi everyone!
Hey I just joined too. Goodbye reddit. No baconreader no reddit for me
in all my time I haven't actually heard anyone else say they use Baconreader
I did!
Baconreader or bust!
I do!
Well, not right this second.
I used to but switched to relay a few years ago
Eyup!
it's not bad eh!
It has actually blown my mind how many people got behind this movement. Overall the change was not something that would have ruined Reddit for most, but it was enough of a middle finger of the community that we all got riled up for it. I am proud to be a part of this movement!
It might not be affecting the general population of reddit, but I'd hazard to guess that it is affecting the moderators significantly. You only need to piss off the moderators enough for them to take their sub(s) private.
Seems like Reddit is completely down now. Frontpage hasn't loaded for 15 or 20 minutes.
RIF still works lol.
That probably won't last given Spez's bullshit, but I gotta say, Lemmy is looking pretty promising. The Jeroba mobile app is a little underwhelming though, voting and replying to comments is a hassle. Maybe the RIF dev will make a Lemmy app or help improve Jeroba.
there was talks of the reddit infinity app possibly incorporating lemmy into itself
Never tried that one, my go to was RiF. Is that on Android?
it's on android
Awesome, thanks!
How is it a hassle? It seems perfect-enough to me.
At least on Android, I can't respond to or vote on responses that show up in my inbox. Clicking on the message itself does nothing instead of taking me to the message. The UI definitely needs improvements in usability but it's still very much in development as far as I could tell.
I think it's having trouble keeping up with the rush of users. I'll admit though it's pretty frustrating that my upvotes don't register. I get "timeout" after a few seconds.
Yeah it's really slow right now. Like you, I assume it's because of an influx of new people but took me like a minute to just log in. Hopefully it's not as bad once the rush of people starts settling
I only seem to be having that problem with Jeroba. In the browser it seems to work fine with the lemmies I've tried
At first it was both, couldn't upvote on the browser or Jerboa. Since this afternoon though I haven't been getting a timeout error on Jerboa.
Edit: nevermind it's happening again. Maybe it's happening due to server load?
Oh! I just figured that out -- try tapping-and-holding for a second. Some menu options should come up then.
Thanks I'll give that a try. Upvote/downvote/reply should all just appear by default though IMO
I personally like the clean presentation, but I would definitely be happy compromising with it being a setting we can choose, and defaulting to it being visible - sitewide, not just in the inbox.
Miner's android, I am using jerboa, and they are appearing automatically for me.
The RedReader Dev had said he's looking to include Lemmy.
Never tried that one either, I usually used RiF. Is that on Android?
Yep. You can get it on FDroid package manager or the Google Play Store.
Awesome, thanks!
If you’re using an iPhone, Mlem is in TestFlight beta. https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc
I'm on Android, but I'm sure other people with iPhones would be excited to test it out!
RIF's dev is busy helping Tildes, but I'm sure with Rexxit many more experienced app devs will submit more PRs and write their own solutions.
Damn, I might give Tildes a more serious look just because of that. RiF was great.
So is the Boost app. Quick look at Reddit a lot of the usual players on r/All
Shit is collapsing. I hope the Reddit Board are enjoying a huge bowl of ‘Found Out’.
Nice seeing so many of those that I visit often are dark. Before the blackout, there was talk of if they should go permanently. But, those discussions will happen after things go back. With Spez being a dipshit about it still, I'm thinking several of them will leave Reddit forever. I'm good with it.
I've taken my subs down for the couple of days as a starting point. Not sure I plan to bring them back up until there is change but we'll see what happens
Holy shit over 2.5 billion combined subscribers. I've also been seeing quite a few people deleting their accounts, myself included.
It's kind of a useless stat considering the amount of overlap.
Same here, I'm planning to delete my account on 06-30 and append a message to all my comments why I did so.
There's also a Twitch stream linked at the top of the page. Join us in sitting around, watching, and chatting as the proverbial shit hits the fan!
if the site won't load for you, the link is twitch.tv/reddark_247
Fascinating watching that, I'm learning about all sorts of subs I never even knew existed!
So. Much. Porn
I'd guess those subs have a relatively high percentage of mobile users, for... reasons.
so many nsfw/porn related subs (i was watching the stream of it)
This has really opened my eyes to just how many niche porn subs there are.....maybe too many?
Never too many.
I've already seen a megathread on Lemmy linking to porn communities. It's inevitable
Oh God, that's horrible.
Do you have a link?
I can't believe they're hanging us out to dry like this.
Found it. There is an instance called lemmynsfw.com.
hehe
Bonk
I think there's enough.
Weirdly enough, the website gone dark on me so now I can't see Reddit subs go dark.
Looks like the website crashed!
It loaded on the fourth try but didn’t have much data but a refresh sent me back to the Cloudflare error page.
it's being streamed https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
It had too many visitors. There’s like 3k people watching this on twitch right now.
7500 people right now!
Come on r/Australia. Do the right thing!!!
They're still public but they've locked down new posting to mod announcements only, which is kind of confusing but at least it's something.
As a long time member of r/Australia, it is very on point for them to not join the blackout.
Why?
I feel like each time a sub goes private there should be a custom final message or something. Like a last post saying "Goodnight and good luck" 😅
So long and thanks for all the memes
Would be nice to see a graph over time
Is the website using the API to fetch it's data? That would be hilarious.
Site is down :(
I think it would be better to watch the stream instead, the website is being hammered and went down a couple of times already.
https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
r/Satisfyingasfuck to watch!
You mean c/oddlysatisfying ;)
I've been watching this for four hours and can't look away, send help
OP can you pin the livestream?
twitch.tv/reddark_247
going to the website redirects you there now (:
If most of the subreddits go private, will there be only ads shown on the main web page?
Probably? Otherwise they'd not get any money
kinda wild to see the variety of communities that are a part of the blackout. and the sheer amount of porn subreddits there are. jesus.
I'll get my popcorn
Holy shit, it went mental there (1am UK time) suddenly about a hundred subs (I think) went dark one after the other!
Yeah a whole bunch signed up for a bot to do it automagically. I was watching/laughing as I set my 3 member sub to private manually
Its like isfreenodedeadyet all over again.
Love this website, well done Dev/s
How many subs went dark? The link is not showing that as of 1445 PDT
Currently the page says 7278 (out of 7806) have gone dark.
@0485919158191 The site just went down for me (~14:05, 2023-06-11), returning 404, now 403 error.
The website is redirecting me to the livestream now.
Nevermind, just seen the note—it's because of too much traffic.
Every so often I see a sub going public again - any theory on what that means? Mods changing their minds? Reddit installing its own mods?
It takes some time for Reddit to sync correctly. If they flash it means the mods changed to private!
It's a sync problem, there was a note on the website, it solves itself in a few minutes.
stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247
Thanks :-)
No problem :)
my guess is a bug. i just watched r/askelectricians go public, but visiting the sub there's no mention of it ever going dark in the first place
Looks like the server’s down. Did we break it already?? It was up like half an hour ago.
Just gone down again, sadly. Hopefully not for long!
Noticing that the total subreddit count is going up. Not nearly as fast as they’re going dark, but wonder how many duplicate sub’s are getting created. Or is it something more nefarious being done my the admins?
There are almost 3 million subreddits. And over 100k active subreddits.
This is amazing to watch!
I think its broken... or crumbling from the 10s of us trying to load page .P
There's currently 4,5k people watching the twitch stream. I bet there are several times that amount of people trying to access the webpage directly. It's just being hugged to death.
Yeah he had to take the site down I think
Bad gateway...
It's scary to watch, there's so many communities.
такъв протест се случи само поради американската алчност...