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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

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] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

honestly I figured it'd be the result of all those people running deletion scripts on their accounts

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is probably it. Also ArchiveTeam is archiving Reddit as a high priority target so lots of bots scraping it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

God bless archive.org. We'd be so screwed without their efforts.

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