CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”

Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by monksy on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:26PM (#31599434)

oh so you made the "reddit is down" page. :)

(Just kidding.. I appreciate your work and I've been using reddit for a long time)

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:32PM (#31599501)

I did actually make one of them. :)

My favorite one was when we knew we had to take the site down for a few hours, so we made a page with curated content a-la-Slashdot where you couldn't vote or comment and it just stayed that way for a few hours. We just picked some of our favorite sites.

But we didn't warn the sites we were linking to and some of them got quite a shock with the sudden influx of traffic!

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by danillonunes on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:46PM (#31600300)

"You broke reddit :("

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by disiplus on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:05PM (#31600498)

i remember those days, reddit was a lot down, and you did a lot of maintenance in europe time, so i would be productive at work.

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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @06:09PM (#31601163)

Ha! Sorry bout that. We just did it at the lowest traffic times, and I'm a night owl.

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