Every other comment about what's down in this thread -- as if we needed dozens of site-by-site accountings of this outage in the first place -- is a bitch about reddit. Why is reddit so important to this crowd? The specific topics I used to read the site for (half a dozen years ago) have all been overrun by "bucket people," there is literally never an answer to any question I find a google link to there, and the site's design is actively user-hostile. Seriously: what's keeping that place afloat? Porn, I suppose.
Of course, the Enlightened Folk of this site can no longer use their leisure time on lowly activities such as the "Reddit".
Teach me your ways, master! /s
Jokes aside, people can do whatever they please. Reddit has a bunch of niche communities around many hobbies and fun things. No need to be bitter about it.
You have put your finger on it. I AM bitter about it. It used to be really cool, and really nice to use, before the Taylor/Pao dustup, and the redesign.
old.reddit still a thing and there is a plenty of educational subreddits with really nice community around them, it's just like the internet just pick the things that suits you.
reddit taught me to never trust a mod, so it does have some purpose still. i think without glaringly bad examples of how (not) to run a community based site, we would be doomed to repeat it's mistakes.
