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Reddit Is Down

by gareth_untether on 6/12/23, 2:36 PM with 21 comments

• by shawabawa3 on 6/12/23, 2:39 PM

  Considering the timing and the fact they should be under significantly _reduced_ load today, I wonder if this could be sabotage by disgruntled employees

  Then again maybe the blackout is having a Streisand effect where everyone is checking to see what's down, and perhaps usually traffic is sharded across subreddits that no longer exists

• by Glench on 6/12/23, 3:40 PM

  God what a mess.

  If anyone else is interested in leaving Reddit I made a browser extension you can use to batch delete your Reddit posts and comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-delete-reddit...

  Let me know how it works for you if you try it! Still fixing bugs.

• by leros on 6/12/23, 2:44 PM

  I'm getting errors about 50% of the time right now.

  I wonder if they have more users trying to access the same data than usual. A large portion of the popular subreddits are dark but I bet their userbase hasn't dropped that much, so you have more users loading the same posts and comments. It probably drastically changes the dynamics of their load.

• by gareth_untether on 6/12/23, 2:36 PM

  No content loading through the app and the website is not loading much.

• by doxeddaily on 6/12/23, 3:40 PM

  This is annoying, how can they know we aren't using it when it's down.

• by sysadmin420 on 6/12/23, 2:44 PM

  Screw reddit. Hope they choke

• by sidcool on 6/12/23, 3:28 PM

  It's working for me somehow.

• by pestoAioli on 6/12/23, 2:40 PM

  Lmaooooooo