Reddit has stopped working for millions of users around the world.

Reddit has stopped working for millions of users around the world.

The mass outage comes amid a major boycott from thousands of the site’s administrators, who are protessting new changes to the platform.

On 12 June, popular sub-Reddits like r/videos and r/bestof went dark in retaliation to proposed API (Application Programming Interface) charges for third-party app developers.

Among the apps impacted by the new pricing is popular iOS app Apollo, which announced last week that it was unable to afford the new costs and would be shutting down.

Apollo CEO Christian Selig claimed that Reddit would charge up to $20 million per year in order to operate, prompting the mass protest from Reddit communities.

In a Q&A session on Reddit on Friday, the site’s CEO Steve Huffman defended the new pricing.

“Some apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, and Sync have decided this pricing doesn’t work for their businesses and will close before pricing goes into effect,” said Mr Huffman, who goes by the Reddit username u/spez.

“For the other apps, we will continue talking. We acknowledge that the timeline we gave was tight; we are happy to engage with folks who want to work with us.”

In response to the latest outage, one Reddit user wrote on Twitter: “Spez, YOU broke Reddit.”

Website health monitor DownDetector registered more than 7,000 outage reports for Reddit on Monday.

Some users were greeted with the message: “Something went wrong. Just don’t panic.”

Others received an error warning that stated: “Our CDN [content delivery network] was unable to reach our servers.”

Update: Seems to be resolved for most users

  • realChem@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    There’s so much to learn, a human is not capable of learning everything. There should never be shame in somebody knowing something you don’t know, and therefore there should never be superiority in sharing something you do know!

    This in particular has become a pretty important idea to me recently. To add on, I think that the more you learn the more you realize how much there is to know, and the more comfortable you get with the idea that knowing it all is just impossible. I think that late high school / early undergrad I was a bit of a smug ass about some things, really thought I knew everything (even though I would have told you I didn’t). I’m a year out from finishing a PhD now and never have I been more aware of how limited my perspective is.

    Relatedly, I think, I used to avoid asking questions in classes because I didn’t want to look foolish if I asked an “obvious” question. Now I’m happy to risk looking a little silly by asking something basic, because I know how absolutely full of gaps my knowledge is anyway. I’ve definitely asked some silly questions recently, including one where I’m pretty sure my PI would have been within her rights to respond with something like, “You should really know this by now,” but hey! Now I do know!