• Sun-Spider
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    2 years ago

    Hey! This post is not specifically related to the lemmy.world instance. From now on, posts such as these will be removed, in order for the community to stay on topic. However, as this is a highly upvoted post, I’ll just lock it for now.

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    462 years ago

    “Ok guys, if we take the site down they can’t have a blackout: It’s brilliant!”

    -Spez probably

  • BOMBS
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    162 years ago

    i like how they said that the outage anticipated and expected yet, they didn’t prevent it only to try to fix it once it happened. totally healthy company behavior 👌

  • @okfuskee@lemmy.world
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    142 years ago

    I’ve used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.

    No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.

    The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc… That sealed its fate in my eyes.

    • @9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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      There was some kind of cookie consent popup on old.reddit.com and it said “go to the new reddit to set preferences” or something like that and i clicked it without reading properly and got sent to new reddit.

      What a shit website… I will never use new reddit. Get fucked spez

    • @3StacksHS@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      I actually prefer when the ads are targeted but wrong. It shows me they don’t know me as well as they could. Also if I’m not interested they aren’t distracting

      • @certain_people@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        I used the official app but I have ADHD, which is basically targeted ad kryptonite. By the time they target something to me, I’ve moved on.

    • GaryPonderosa
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      22 years ago

      Yeah. I don’t mind ads if I’m getting content for free, but at least know your audience. I feel like especially the hegetsus spam was wildly misplaced on Reddit.

    • @breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      for years companies have been trying for “targeted ads” but in rare occasions I see ads, they’re terribly off the mark, like you have mentioned

      • @fcuks@lemmy.world
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        Companies have been trying and succeeding with targeted ads*

        There’s a reason a bunch of the biggest tech companies in the world’s main revenue is these ads, they absolutely work unfortunately.

    • @ratboy@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      Not related at all, but hear me out…lemmy needs a grind/extreme music community

    • @static@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      I don’t even think most of their ads gets interacted often. The small amount of people who are using the official reddit app probably have gotten used to it now so will just wait this blackout out.

      • @Devon@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        I think more people use the official app than you might think. I initially thought everyone was in unanimous outrage, but many just don’t care. I don’t understand how some people know about ad-free third party apps and still use the official one.

        • @Bodybroker@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          Because I was already using it since it first came out, and honestly the ads weren’t/aren’t even that big of a deal. I don’t even notice them 90% of the time.

        • @static@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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          02 years ago

          Convenience. For the average user it’s just download from the play store and scroll. I agree that lot of people use the official app but they’re used to the ads from other social media apps too probably.

          • @taj@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            I mean… I downloaded a third party app from the play store. Isn’t that how you got yours too??

            • Carly™
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              I mean yes, you can get third party apps on the Play Store (I got mine off F-Droid but that’s besides the point), but for most people, if they want to install “Reddit” on their phone, they’re gonna search for “Reddit,” and then when the first thing that pops up is the official app, they’ll install that, and never think twice about it.

    • @cookiecollision@lemmy.world
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      Same here. I’ve been using old.reddit with RES and apollo for so long that I forgot reddit even had ads until I tried the official app.

  • @ngwoo@beehaw.org
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    142 years ago

    Good to know that Reddit can be killed for an entire afternoon any time the community wants by coordinating the use of basic site functions.

  • @ImmeOKOK@lemmy.world
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    122 years ago

    While I was reading through this, I had a pop-up saying “report created”. I didn’t press anything to report; I only gave upvotes. So, apologies to who/what was reported. 😖

    • Roboticide
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      32 years ago

      Makers and consumers. At one point an Admin, I think it was Alexis or Yashan, said straight up like 50% of reddit is porn. That was years ago though, and I’m sure they’ve done what they could to mitigate that.

    • @LovelyCupcake@feddit.de
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      42 years ago

      Always hated that image on the error page. Blaming the user when they are the ones that fucked up. Server errors are never the users fault

      • @PixxlMan@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        I think it’s pretty funny and I’m sure it’s just a joke. It’s hardly actually blaming users, imo.

  • Wrena of Delpan
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    42 years ago

    But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.

    • @worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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      172 years ago

      Our usage stats show that we have record low numbers of people using the site and at the same time we have too many people using the site.

      If they are being completely honest, my guess is that the page that loads when a sub is private comes from a server that doesn’t typically get much load.

      Then everything went private and suddenly that server was hugged to death.

      • Wrena of Delpan
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        92 years ago

        This makes sense to me. I only came over to Lemmy because of the reddit API drama, and I’m pretty impressed with it so far! I’d love for it to grow, so I hope this is a death knell or sign of things to come for Reddit.