Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!
Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!
Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here’s a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.
Makes sense, posts can be (and are) automated via repost bots. Commente and genuine interaction is impossible to fake.
Genuine interaction is hard to take but there is definitely no shortage of bot comments or astroturfing in the comments
But if the only thing left in the comments section are obvious bots, even real users not planning to join in the Reddit blackout will start fleeing.
Since the source graph gets wonky immediately before the crop, there’s not really enough here to compare against from the before-times (last week).
But what is here looks like a very large problem on the comment front, with each peak being lower than the last and and the latter two nadirs following the same pattern. The presumed “small number of power users” were having a noticeable impact more than 48 hours earlier. (and, hey … good on them for using 0 as the axis)
They basically had to after today’s outage. Both almost dropped to 0.
This is cool where did you find it? Or did you generate it?
Guessing it’s this: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
Thank you!
Thanks @Kushan@beehaw.org. That is indeed where I saw it. I forgot the link in my post.