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Hey everyone. If you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy!

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Trace it to the root of the problem, if the subreddits going dark took the servers down, then what made all the subreddits go dark 🤔

[–] miraclechalk@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read somewhere on one of these federated sites (I'd have to dig through my history to find it) that it's essentially the spaghetti code that is Reddit. This person, who claimed to have worked at Reddit years ago, said that the aggregation engine for things like r/all is very inefficient and when thousands of subreddits went dark it wouldn't be able to parse (or something like that).

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