On the first day of a sitewide protest at Reddit’s planned API changes, the website has been going through an outage.

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      1 year ago

      Have you read the article?

      “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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      1 year ago

      I dunno, private subreddits probably can’t be cached the same as public ones, they probably need to authenticate every request… I’m sure Reddit never thought to optimise for having so many subs go private 😝