Could repeatedly privating and unprivating a sub crash Reddit? : reddit

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023

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When all the subs went private for the blackout it caused Reddit to crash. Suggests that it's a resource-intensive task for their backend.

Edit: this is hypothetical btw

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. When they did "the snap" and banned half of everyone from r/thanosdidnothingwrong they did it slowly to not overload the servers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did... Did this really happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was a while ago now but yeah, I do remember that being kind of a big thing.

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

I think users have also been uploading massive files of white noise to Reddit... Louis Rossmann spoke about this during a recent video: