I got the “shutting down” message and I was signed out of all of my accounts. But the front page, posts, and comments are all still loading just fine.
I got the “shutting down” message and I was signed out of all of my accounts. But the front page, posts, and comments are all still loading just fine.
No it’s the opposite most likely. Typical update procedure for anything of value is to perform a gradual roll out. You want to make sure that if any bugs are present in your major changes you aren’t destroying your entire user base at once. You will still see some clients functioning for a few weeks until everyone is finally on the latest version.
Reddit not playing 4D chess and trying to get in your head with conspiracy theories. It’s just standard software update procedure.