Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout
www.theverge.com
On the same day thousands of subreddits went private.
    • Iwes@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      Not an expert, so I can only speculate, but maybe their scaling system doesn’t handle scaling down well? Or maybe they log visitor requests to private subreddits and it overloaded…

      Or they are lying to try and make the strike look bad