According to Reddit, the blackout was 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.
I am so pleased with ourselves.
Did they somehow have certain subreddits hardcoded into the frontpage algorithm? Lol.
Yeah, sounds like it, otherwise this should not be possible. And how they did not realize it is going to crash, didn’t they believe these subreddits would actually do it?
Imagine, we make this a weekly occurrence; every Monday major subreddits black out.
Meh, that would necessitate actually using Reddit.
I really hope Reddit just collapses. It’s unlikely, but hopefully enough boycotting and blackouts either does the trick or makes spez fold and let the community win.
Oh yeah. It’s all coming together.
Ironically, no such issue with 3rd party reddit clients as far as I could tell.
