Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?
Looks like Reddit has gone dark. I logged out and deleted the apps. How are things internally?
I’ve been browsing Reddit’s mobile app in Popular mode just to see how the experience is for average redditors.
Unfortunately there’s enough interesting content that I’m not sure average people will even notice or care. And it’s painful to say that.
By “interesting” I mean interesting to the masses. /r/AITAH, /r/iamatotalpieceofshit, /r/therewasanattempt, /r/news… the list goes on.
Part of Reddit’s strength is that even with only a handful of subs, it still surfaces the most interesting content from those subs. The net effect is that people who aren’t a member of a community gone dark won’t really be affected.
At least they’ll see it, though. I had to scroll past many posts about the blackout, which isn’t nothing.
I can imagine their sysadmin team going: It's going very well, load average is extremely low and all the servers are running cool!
My home feed on Apollo is hilarious. It's the smallest subs I subscribe to that never make it to my front page. It's basically "small hobby subs". Even if I were interested in continuing to use Reddit it's basically broken as of right now. I can see what's happening with Warhammer and Kubernetes patch notes.
Ok, so there's a list of communities that went dark [1] - but is there anywhere a list of communities that went dark and are moving elsewhere?
Like, where exactly?
I, for one, don't plan on getting back onto Reddit, i've deleted the official app and keep Apollo around for as long as it is still working.
Love the protest and i really hope Reddit leadership gets the message, but IMHO the bridges are burnt and Reddit itself is too - even if they, somehow, reverse course - i'd rather have communities moving elsewhere than going dark for like 2 days and then return to business as usual...
[1] https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/ for example
I would not be surprised if there's a traffic bump. A lot of people just want to see the chaos
So what’s the next Reddit. 9gag? Imgur? HN?
Anyone at Reddit: how out of date is your CV now that you need to update it?
So what keeps Reddit from 'taking over' these subs? They probably already have auto moderation in some form, they could outsource manual moderation temporarily to some companies. Probably some people who contribute a lot will get angry and not post anymore, but the world is big. Until a new similar platform pops up, you will still find new contributors who might not care about this protest.
Anecdotally - Reddit is not really useable for me today. More than half of the communities I frequent are offline so the home feed is just the odd ones that are.
Even if we see effects, it could be very short term. People also walked out during the Facebook and IG timeline redesigns, and yet they moved on and user engagement even increased. They will move on from this one, and I’m sure Reddit will find a way to increase engagement despite this.
Well obiously there is not much left to see on the website
The worst is that reddit search is so bad that they make it impossible to find an alternative subreddit. I disagree with the whole "strike" idea, but reddit is really a terribly terribly ran website
I was on today. It seems... better.
Are Reddit GDPR request getting processed slower than usual? Previous time I tried it was within a few minutes, but this time it's half a day and still nothing.
This Reddit strike is the most Reddit thing I’ve seen.
I don’t even understand the issue in the first place, you can either use the official app for free with ads, or use a third party app for something like $2 a month.