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No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.

by cente 3y ago

Timon3 3y ago
How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?
- post-it 3y ago
  Can't prove it's not aliens.
  - Timon3 3y ago
    Another sibling comment was added 2 minutes ago, where Reddit themselves state that the blackout is the cause: > According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. Maybe you should think a bit harder about the difference between "this thing that is actively happening could be the cause" and "aliens could be the cause"?
    - godshatter 3y ago
      If they anticipated it, why did it become an issue?
      - Timon3 3y ago
        I do not work for Reddit. Maybe they have some press contact info on their page you could try? Or Twitter or something?
        godshatter 3y ago
        That was more of a rhetorical question.
        Timon3 3y ago
        Which one of these possibilities is more likely? a) it was the incredibly rare event affecting most of the popular content on the page, which the host themselves state it was b) it was something completely unrelated I know which one I'd put money on!
VHRanger 3y ago
We don't know anything about reddit's backend architecture. It might mess up their load handling, or raise other errors.
lazycouchpotato 3y ago
Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_during_blackout_day_1#comment-87v1 https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri... EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private. > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a-site-wide-protest-against-its-unpopular-new-api-policy-kicks-off/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a...
- yosito 3y ago
  How does one get a user account on Tildes?
  - HaZeust 3y ago
    Be invited by a pre-existing user.
  - lazycouchpotato 3y ago
    It's currently invite-only. I have a few left, but I'm not sure how to send you one privately.
darknavi 3y ago
From elsewhere in the thread: > According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...

No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.

by cente 3y ago

No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.

How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?

post-it 3y ago
Can't prove it's not aliens.
- Timon3 3y ago
  Another sibling comment was added 2 minutes ago, where Reddit themselves state that the blackout is the cause: > According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. Maybe you should think a bit harder about the difference between "this thing that is actively happening could be the cause" and "aliens could be the cause"?
  - godshatter 3y ago
    If they anticipated it, why did it become an issue?
    - Timon3 3y ago
      I do not work for Reddit. Maybe they have some press contact info on their page you could try? Or Twitter or something?
      - godshatter 3y ago
        That was more of a rhetorical question.
        Timon3 3y ago
        Which one of these possibilities is more likely? a) it was the incredibly rare event affecting most of the popular content on the page, which the host themselves state it was b) it was something completely unrelated I know which one I'd put money on!

VHRanger 3y ago

We don't know anything about reddit's backend architecture. It might mess up their load handling, or raise other errors.

lazycouchpotato 3y ago

Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_during_blackout_day_1#comment-87v1 https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri... EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private. > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt. https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a-site-wide-protest-against-its-unpopular-new-api-policy-kicks-off/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a...

yosito 3y ago
How does one get a user account on Tildes?
- HaZeust 3y ago
  Be invited by a pre-existing user.
- lazycouchpotato 3y ago
  It's currently invite-only. I have a few left, but I'm not sure how to send you one privately.

darknavi 3y ago

From elsewhere in the thread: > According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...