Could repeatedly privating and unprivating a sub crash Reddit? : reddit

this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023

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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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[–] Comrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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