Comments and searches stalled, as they've done before, all over the site and not just on political subs.
I guess it's possible that the large public company that trades most profitably on controversy, contention, and sensation decided to hide pointless censorship under the cover of the same kind of bugs they regularly encounter, but you'd kind of have to assume the admins of this janky site are secretly very technically adept and just keep the site fragile in case they need to make pointless and ineffectual exercises of covert censorship.
Is that really what you think?
> Comment tree processing is delayed
* 19:17 PDT Investigating - We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.
* 20:26 PDT Identified - We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.
* 21:08 PDT Update - We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.
* 21:31 PDT Update - A large spike in traffic caused some scaling issues, which delayed new comment display across the site. All comments posted during this time will be displayed as the servers work through the backlog.
* 22:05 PDT Resolved - Comment processing has now fully caught up. Thank you for your patience!
This makes sense why https://old.reddit.com/r/all/comments/ worked but the nested comments in threads don't.
I don’t think Reddit can be trusted as a news source if they suppress news, options, or ideas.
still... thanks for just commenting about reddit rather than making a political jeremiad.
Biden-Trump debate breaks parts of Reddit, it seems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40817523
From what I understand, that's looking increasingly likely to be what occurs over the next 30-45 days. If I am correct, then that is going to dominate the news over the next 6 weeks and bring talk about exercising the 25th Amendment if Biden refuses to step aside.
The thing that worries me most is the risk China, Russia, Iran, or Israel try to take advantage and do something stupid during the next 6 weeks. For that reason, I believe it is critical to the country for the 'powers that be' step in and pretty much force Biden to step down as President within the next 48-72 hours. It is a very dangerous time.