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[โ€“] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The Verge article:

โ€œA significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and weโ€™ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,โ€ spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.

So... According to Reddit the blackout is the culprit, I guess?

So either it's just an outage and they're faulting the blackout, or the blackout is actually the culprit. Either way I hope this works. However, I'm still not going back to Reddit even if they fix and reverse everything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder if it's bots or something trying to access the now dark subreddits. Essentially causing a DDOS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

well if i made a bot, hmm, yeah that could cause it lol. Like if i tell it "go in every 30 minutes & steal the top 20 posts", and it's down, i'd just say "retry till u get it, idc if u DoS that shit" and well if many ppl do it, it's a free DDoS courtesy of robotland

[โ€“] fing3r 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

if that's what's happening, i feel a sense of fellowship for those ppl who don't give a shit and will ddos a website just to try and steal some memes, truly conoisseurs of ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธest ๐Ÿ…ฑ๏ธractices ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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