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Reddit blaming website crashing on subreddits going private (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by w2tpmf@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms.

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. The company said the outage was fully resolved at 1:28PM ET.

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[-] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

"More than 7,000 subreddits have gone private or read-only in response to the API pricing terms"

Holy crap!

[-] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago
[-] SerpentPeaked@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Can that be right? 93% of subreddits have gone dark?

[-] RichardBonham@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

And 7% of subreddits are scabs?!

[-] maskapony@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

If you click through to some of the ones that indicate still public you can see they have gone into read-only mode rather than completely private.

[-] kunic@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

That's not 93% of all subreddits; just 93% of those that committed to going dark.

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