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  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
    7·
    1 year ago

    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.

        • femboy_link.mp4@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s entirely possible that they’ve made some assumptions about what a “normal” level of traffic looks like when writing code for their backend, which has caused some things to break when that has changed.

          Not our fault if their code is shit.

        • SSUPII@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Maybe some overload caused by a process having to dig deeper to find best/top posts?

          • WagnasT@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I like this idea. I imagine that with the top subs being dark the automated top posts that get scrounged up may be too terrifying for the front page and they hit the panic button while they scramble to curate through the absolute worst filth they’ve ever seen.

              • aponigricon@beehaw.org
                0·
                1 year ago

                You’d be surprised how much critical infrastructure was implemented through trial and error and has just been left like that for years…

                • sickmatter@fedia.io
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Anything less than 99% of infrastructure working that way would be surprising. Everything is held together with scotch tape and scotch whisky.

    • SomeDude@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I bet their shitty bots intended to inflate comments and content couldn’t be switched off in time for the blackouts, still sending requests and DDoS’ing their own site.

    • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      When Reddit forcibly opens everything back up:

      knock knock

      “Who’s there?”

      ”Mods. Hired mods.”

      “Hired mods?”