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Sounds silly, but I’m guessing they don’t want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don’t give a spez(fuck) about what’s going on with the protests.
u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).
100%… “malicious code in a 3rd party app led effectively to a DDOS attack on reddit… this is why we must close the API to only allow select approved apps”
But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.
Interesting, hopefully that’s the case instead of something more… stupid from Reddit. I sincerely hope this is just the community protesting in some way.
Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?
Reddit hides partial blackout by going full blackout lmao
Sounds silly, but I’m guessing they don’t want the dip in usage on some reports they have to show to stakeholders, and can instead write it off as server issues.
That doesn’t sound silly at all.
Galaxy brain
u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).
But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don’t give a spez(fuck) about what’s going on with the protests.
But… if this is on purpose…
Strange decision to say the least.
100%… “malicious code in a 3rd party app led effectively to a DDOS attack on reddit… this is why we must close the API to only allow select approved apps”
From what I’ve been following, they haven’t been too concerned about this since at least a few weeks ago
I know and agree with you on that.
But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.
Outright telling active partners that they won’t help them identify inefficient interactions with the first-party API was a great look.
Even more reason the blackout needs to last more than 48 hrs.
It just makes the blackout look more successful honestly. Pretty dumb of them but they haven’t been making great decisions lately.
that would be disgusting, but i would not be surprised at this point :/
My money is on a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks are 100% going to happen after what Spez pulled.
That’s what I thought first because their infrastructure seems to be shit.
My wife and I were talking about this 2 days ago. She was betting money that we’d see DDoS attacks early Monday.
> We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.
I’m 99% sure those are automated, so it really doesn’t say anything.
Doubt it
https://www.redditstatus.com/history
The other messages are not the same and an automated response would be posted faster.
Interesting, hopefully that’s the case instead of something more… stupid from Reddit. I sincerely hope this is just the community protesting in some way.