This Reddit blackout situation just got really interesting. You might recall that the blackout in protest of Reddit’s changes to their API rules started today, and just before 11AM Reddit went down. Well, The Verge is reporting that Reddit is blaming, wait for it, the blackout for the crash.
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.
On Monday morning, Reddit’s status page reported a “major outage” affecting Reddit’s desktop and mobile sites and its native mobile apps. “We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible,” the company wrote on the status pagein a message at 10:58AM ET.
At 11:47AM PT, the company wrote that “We’re observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users. We will continue to closely monitor the situation.” Rathschmidt didn’t have an ETA for when things would be fixed, but the status has switched from “major outage” back to “operational.”
You can’t even make this stuff up. As in we’re unable to stay online because people turned off their subreddits. Now this could be true. But the cynic in me says that Reddit might have other issues unrelated to the blackout. And they are simply blaming the blackout for them. If that’s true, that’s pretty lame. And Reddit will have to come up with a better explanation for this. Right after they properly address the API issue and everything that surrounds that.
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Reddit Blames The API Protests For Today’s Outage… No, Seriously, Reddit Said That
This Reddit blackout situation just got really interesting. You might recall that the blackout in protest of Reddit’s changes to their API rules started today, and just before 11AM Reddit went down. Well, The Verge is reporting that Reddit is blaming, wait for it, the blackout for the crash.
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.
On Monday morning, Reddit’s status page reported a “major outage” affecting Reddit’s desktop and mobile sites and its native mobile apps. “We’re aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible,” the company wrote on the status pagein a message at 10:58AM ET.
At 11:47AM PT, the company wrote that “We’re observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users. We will continue to closely monitor the situation.” Rathschmidt didn’t have an ETA for when things would be fixed, but the status has switched from “major outage” back to “operational.”
You can’t even make this stuff up. As in we’re unable to stay online because people turned off their subreddits. Now this could be true. But the cynic in me says that Reddit might have other issues unrelated to the blackout. And they are simply blaming the blackout for them. If that’s true, that’s pretty lame. And Reddit will have to come up with a better explanation for this. Right after they properly address the API issue and everything that surrounds that.
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