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Some possibilities:
Using Occam's Razor, I'd bet on the last option.
You'd be right. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
Reddit uses AWS, not cloudflare.
Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service, many services are hosted through Cloudflare on other hosting providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, DO, etc.
Reddit appears to use Fastly, but I could be wrong there. They used to use Cloudflare in combination with the rest of their infra
Agreed, they use fastly.
Or the third.
Or they took it offline to "hide" all the blacked out subreddits. Some had images about the third party apps as their only post, which was on the front page. By going offline it makes it seem like more of a technical issue rather than a protest.
r/conspiracy licking their lips right now.
Slow down there Alex Jones...
Spez seems like the type of scumbag to do just that. Occam's Razor still applies, of course, but I don't think that's crazy out of character for him.
@nodsocket It's a special de-blackoutisation operation through their own blackout.
@fubo
Iβd guess that with so many top subs going dark, the mixing algorithm needs to dig deeper and itβs not tuned for that. These algorithms are hard to get right at Redditβs scale.
As an example to populate the frontpage or /r/all it might would need to scan all posts from the private subs before even getting a sizeable amount of candidate posts from the public ones to rank. Then the public subs wonβt be in cache nor will caching help as much on those long tail subreddits. Not being in cache means more hits to the DB and thatβs going to affect nearly all requests to Reddit.
It could be that their infrastructure is set up to optimize showing data on the typically most popular subreddits.