Even the CBC is making an article about it! 😅

  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I saw someone speculate elsewhere that it could be that some high-profile subreddits were hard-coded for the front page, and them going private could have crashed the system. That would be a bad implementation, but is a reasonable explanation for why everything stopped working.

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      1 year ago

      That too! All boils down to the unexpected. Reddit back in the day was always crashing too, only really remember it being stable the past few years

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      Im surprised that the big ticket subreddits, of which there are only a handful, are yet publicly moderated. Tbh I do forsee them changing ownership of these 20 odd subreddits and getting to a point where your average joe cant tell a blackout is occuring. Whether they can maintain the standards is up for debate however.