Mike D.@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agoReddit is crashing because of the growing subreddit blackoutwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkReddit is crashing because of the growing subreddit blackoutwww.theverge.comMike D.@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 years agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
On the first day of a sitewide protest at Reddit’s planned API changes, the website has been going through an outage.
minus-squareDeedasmi@lemmy.timdn.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago“Because” is a pretty strong word. I’d be surprised if it was related at all.
minus-squarebrain_in_a_jar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoI 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 😝
minus-squarecujolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years ago I’m sure Reddit never thought to optimize for having so many subs go private FTFY.
“Because” is a pretty strong word. I’d be surprised if it was related at all.
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 😝
FTFY.