• Sponholz
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      u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).

      But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don’t give a spez(fuck) about what’s going on with the protests.

      But… if this is on purpose…

      Strange decision to say the least.

      • @[email protected]
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        This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform

        From what I’ve been following, they haven’t been too concerned about this since at least a few weeks ago

        • @[email protected]
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          Outright telling active partners that they won’t help them identify inefficient interactions with the first-party API was a great look.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah - in fairness, they weren’t getting paid to, but there are plenty of examples to pick from.

        • Sponholz
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          I know and agree with you on that.

          But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.

      • 💡dim
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        u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).

        100%… “malicious code in a 3rd party app led effectively to a DDOS attack on reddit… this is why we must close the API to only allow select approved apps”

    • @[email protected]
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      It just makes the blackout look more successful honestly. Pretty dumb of them but they haven’t been making great decisions lately.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t know. My best bet is that it’s a happy coincidence for them. It’s probably just an actual accidental outage, but it can be spun in a few different ways. Given their push for an IPO, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an excuse for lower traffic numbers. “Hey, look, these guys all went to protest but there was an outage. Nothing correlates the numbers. Now that we’re back up on XYZ date, everything is returning to normal! It was no big deal!”

        If it actually turns out to be something more nefarious, I can’t say I’d be surprised, but I sincerely hope that isn’t the case.

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          Given their push for an IPO, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an excuse for lower traffic numbers. “Hey, look, these guys all went to protest but there was an outage. Nothing correlates the numbers. Now that we’re back up on XYZ date, everything is returning to normal! It was no big deal!”

          Boy, sure would be nice to live in a world where investors weren’t dumber than flat earthers.

        • Ataraxia
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          I can believe that considering how often they have them. I had subbed to outage emails a while back and days where I don’t get any are rare.

      • @[email protected]
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        The maintenance in this case is damage control. They spent the time deleting a hell of lot of comments from all over the place.

        They definitely don’t want their investors to know what’s happening.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      My money is on a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks are 100% going to happen after what Spez pulled.

    • dogA
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      that would be disgusting, but i would not be surprised at this point :/

    • @[email protected]
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      Well a 5xx response wont get delisted from Google as fast as a 403, so there’s that possibility.

    • Ataraxia
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      Oh no! I hope they don’t do this indefinitely! It would totally defeat the purpose of them going dark in the first place… ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • sverit
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      21 year ago

      Would be the perfect time for critical server updates that require downtime anyway ;)

    • @[email protected]
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      I suspect it’s something related to point in time backups or changes to the api to make it easier to put everything back with new mods.