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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 202 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Reddit has been going through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms.

According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

[–] Luvs2Spuj@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A significant number. Fantastic. I'm not sure I believe the stability issues, I'm just a a tin foil hat kind of guy though. I guess it's possible.

[–] democracy1984@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Reddit didn't design their systems around needing to deal with a huge number of subs going private all at the same time. It's not surprising that it caused a short outage.

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