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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com to c/technology@beehaw.org

Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place, but I see Reddit developments as Tech news right now.

Wanted to share a website that is tracking Subreddits that have/will be going dark. It even has a sound notification for when they change their status.

Edit: Adding the stream https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

Double Edit: Data visualization https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

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[-] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 9 points 2 years ago

Also a good opportunity to back it up everyone with just not visiting their site. I've added 127.0.0.1 reddit.com old.reddit.com www.reddit.com mod.reddit.com i.reddit.com to my hosts file so I don't accidentally follow a link to Reddit (I think they have a lot more subdomains, so the hosts file based approach isn't perfect, but hopefully good enough for a quick solution).

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[-] Wit@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

"The website is temporarily down." ironic lol

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[-] reric88@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

This is awesome. We all need to stick together on this one

[-] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.

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[-] gronk@compuverse.uk 7 points 2 years ago

I was looking for something like this, thanks for sharing!

[-] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago
[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

So they use reddit APIs to check the status? They must be very rich

[-] CarbonWriter@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

According to their GitHub page (their code is all open source), they pull the data from the r/modcoord sub.

r/Modcoord

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[-] Acetamide@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

So after June 30th we will not have an idea about the state of things anymore... :P

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

It does have a pretty big impact on the first day already.

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[-] PapaTorque@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This is great. Some big ones are already dark.

[-] richie510@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I'm really confused by the chart on the site https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ I understand the dip annotated with the red arrow, but I do not understand the rebound annotated with the green arrow... With that many sites down, it should not be possible to rebound to normal levels...

[-] RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com 8 points 2 years ago

I could actually see engagement staying relatively the same since most people are probably popping Reddit open for a few minutes, maybe engaging, then moving on.

What I do find odd is how consistent Posts per minute are over time. But it doesn't dip or rise with comments. So now I'm wondering how automated a lot of posting is.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Bots, all the bot posts. If you even check "All" for a bit even on Lemmy you will see the bots are moving here as well.

[-] Master@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

If you go to the site and view by new it's just page after page of /r/askreddit. Tons of people posting to it with nowhere else to post. So that would explain some of the rebound but the graph is still odd that it rebounded to exactly where it should be if there was no blackout.

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[-] Hyperz@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Time to sit back, relax, and watch ~~the world~~ Reddit burn 😎 🍿

[-] dragonfornicator@partizle.com 5 points 2 years ago

The notifications contain the wrong amount of members for the subreddit, they all say 5k and below ^^ Not that it really matters, just FYI

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[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

This is amazing

[-] intrnt@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Enjoyed watching the stream on twitch, was expecting more of a tsunami of subs going private quicker.

[-] RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com 5 points 2 years ago

I was thinking it would happen at midnight (some local time) but the trickle of subs has been pretty neat actually.

[-] derived_allegory@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

It appears that r/videos is public again and someone has posted 6h ago. Anyone know what is going on?

[-] crank@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Is there a way to see what subs re dark out of the actual total? This looks like it is what % are dark compared to what % are restricted?

In other words I confused what the n is on all of these

[-] karburator@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Is there a way to see what subs re dark out of the actual total?

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com

Choose 'percent' on the third card on the left.

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[-] neblem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Neat thanks for sharing! I've been looking for something like that!

[-] pridefulofbeing@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is great to see. Thanks for sharing.

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