Reddit broke today: Looks like it doesn't like dark subs
Just logged into reddit, from Canada, it's not working correctly. I suspect so many subs going dark have unveiled a bug that has broken some algorithms. Here's hoping they are a pain to fix and require a significant reengineering effort. Anyone confirm the same behavior?
Like the antiwork fiasco. I remember the astroturfing going on where they tried to move people over to "work reform" aka we like work and bosses are good!
If it is deliberate, I'm pretty sure that'd be a call-our-bluff sort of situation and they'd end up with a longer blackout as a result, at least until the majority of participating mods are replaced/banned.
I'd assumed a minor reverse-reddit-hug, personally - there are a lot of news stories on this today with a lot of links to reddit. Either way, a day in and I'm here and kinda loving it, despite it being a bit ... wonky on posting today with all us refugees.
Maybe, this is the day the CEO goes..."hmm, maybe I was wrong, and communities are important to reddit, and the value of free moderation far out weighs my API idiocy", but probable not because CEO tend to be self centered, sociopaths so will most likely double down. Good let's just move to lemmy and mastodon get federation working between them and get rid of centralized corporate internet that always screws their communities after we create the value.
Definitely something going on. Redditstatus.com shows everything operational. I noticed weird bugs yesterday too like images for different posts on the main page. Funny how less users has made it more broken.
Also from Canada, dead on my end too. It's hard to imagine the servers crashing with so much less traffic than usual (even if those servers are probably just a few toasters duct-taped together)