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

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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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[–] MrAegis@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think users have also been uploading massive files of white noise to Reddit... Louis Rossmann spoke about this during a recent video: