API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue.

How in the world does setting a bunch of subs to private crash the website?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Someone on Tilde posted that they used to work for Reddit and the way they have the front page set up to pull your subscribed subreddits and the ones that you might like to read from is spaghetti code and very brittle.

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