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Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic
by graeme 3y ago
Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic
- iLoveOncall 3y agoBy far not 90% of the subs are dark. It's 6000 subs out of 500,000, or 1.2%. Most people don't care at all about this blackout and are just checking the homepage anyway, which will always pull content no matter what. Reddit always has issues at this time (NA wakes up, EU gets off of work), nothing unusual.
- hendersoon 3y agoIt's likely true that most people just browse, don't login, and don't subscribe to subreddits they enjoy. Of course those people don't contribute to their site either, although they do see the advertisements. Anyway for those of us that do login and follow specific topics, I can speak for my own experience, which is that every single subreddit I read was shutdown this morning other than r/worldnews and r/diablo4.
- transcriptase 3y agoIt’s easily 90% of the subs that people actually go to Reddit for. Nobody cares about the 400 subscriber subreddit from some small town in Idaho with 3 people online at any given moment.
- Infinity315 3y ago1.2% of subs does not imply that 1.2% of the user base is gone. A lot of those 500k subs have less than 5k subscribers. Only a small portion of subreddits contribute to the vast amount of content on reddit.
- hgsgm 3y agoThe lack of subreddits could be driving users to the same remaining part of the site, interfering with load balancing
- graeme 3y agoYou're right. I took an overly naive view of how a complex system would respond to such an unusual event.