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Could repeatedly privating and unprivating a sub crash Reddit? (lemmy.world)
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When all the subs went private for the blackout it caused Reddit to crash. Suggests that it's a resource-intensive task for their backend.

Edit: this is hypothetical btw

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe. When they did "the snap" and banned half of everyone from r/thanosdidnothingwrong they did it slowly to not overload the servers.

[–] Axurite@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did they ban them?

[–] Wintar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

In honour of Thanos wanting to halve the universe's population, the subreddit banned half of the users that were subbed/active; About ~350k banned from the sub.

[–] pieceofcrazy@feddit.it 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did... Did this really happen?

[–] Comrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was a while ago now but yeah, I do remember that being kind of a big thing.