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[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The blackout also was also the cause behind a general Reddit outage this morning, during which all content on the site was inaccessible β€” a Reddit spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that "a significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues."

Any guesses on why switching things private might cause predictable issues? Wouldn't that be easier than loading the content? Plus it would discourage further browsing.

[–] darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing a lot of them all at once requires all the various CDN caches to be refreshed, so higher load on the database(s)

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw someone speculate elsewhere that it could be that some high-profile subreddits were hard-coded for the front page, and them going private could have crashed the system. That would be a bad implementation, but is a reasonable explanation for why everything stopped working.

That too! All boils down to the unexpected. Reddit back in the day was always crashing too, only really remember it being stable the past few years