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cente | 2 years ago

No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.

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Timon3|2 years ago

How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?

post-it|2 years ago

Can't prove it's not aliens.

darknavi|2 years ago

From elsewhere in the thread:

> According to Reddit, the blackout is 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. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...

lazycouchpotato|2 years ago

Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...

EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private.

> “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/12/reddit-goes-down-just-as-a...

yosito|2 years ago

How does one get a user account on Tildes?

VHRanger|2 years ago

We don't know anything about reddit's backend architecture. It might mess up their load handling, or raise other errors.