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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.

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[–] notacat@lemmy.fmhy.ml 24 points 2 years ago

I am so pleased with ourselves.

[–] zork@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did they somehow have certain subreddits hardcoded into the frontpage algorithm? Lol.

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

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?

[–] MrGreebles@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine, we make this a weekly occurrence; every Monday major subreddits black out.

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Meh, that would necessitate actually using Reddit.

[–] gilbert31@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah. It's all coming together.