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Ars TechnicaAPI pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours
Thousands of subreddits going dark broke Reddit's website, mobile app.
these machines will destroy US.
Mayfly@arstechnica Well, gosh.
Peter Koopman 🦣
Ken McCann@arstechnica It’s almost as if going against the business model and use-case that formed your business is perhaps… not good for business.
UK-Birmingham_UTV@arstechnica Good but …. Why would it crash the site?
theM0ntarCann0n@tk_uk @arstechnica Guess that reddit servers weren't exactly prepared for such massive change of subreddit states.
Dreamstride@tk_uk @arstechnica guessing the subreddit is private message all goes to one endpoint and that got overloaded with requests when the super popular subreddit’s went dark
Rahul Krrishna@dreamstride @tk_uk @arstechnica one would assume that their super efficient app was taking care of this already. Maybe it’s all the people trying to access from Apollo /s
embix@tk_uk @arstechnica I’d love to read that postmortem
ferricoxide@tk_uk
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Reminds me of the local mass transit system each time they hike rates – it's always one of "there's too many customers, we need to raise rates to pay for capacity" or "there's not enough passengers, we need to raise rates to offset the revenue loss".
But, yeah: how does curtailed traffic cause the site to fall over??
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Reminds me of the local mass transit system each time they hike rates – it's always one of "there's too many customers, we need to raise rates to pay for capacity" or "there's not enough passengers, we need to raise rates to offset the revenue loss".
But, yeah: how does curtailed traffic cause the site to fall over??
The Actual BrianI'm asking the same question.
This answer is what corporate gives support when they can't admit the truth.
"A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue."
Suoko@tk_uk
@arstechnica I think because it's like changing permissions for thousands/millions of users and all related posts. Servers went mad (and their bills too probably)
@arstechnica I think because it's like changing permissions for thousands/millions of users and all related posts. Servers went mad (and their bills too probably)
Bee • New Move!@arstechnica oh no! Anyways
gern@arstechnica (Nelson Muntz) ha ha
Hilmar@arstechnica oh no....
A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue.
🤣 Oops. There goes all that free labor!
missmolotov 🐈⬛@Sonek the irony is not lost on me.
Alto@arstechnica they've been in the fuck around stage for a while. About time they found out
@arstechnica Mastodon once again
C0ppertop@arstechnica I don’t use Reddit. Was it like MySpace?
Norvoke@arstechnica with support 👊
Lothus Marque@arstechnica I gotta admit, a self-DDOS through mass subreddit state-change is ...not something I would have expected. One wonders how nervous the top brass is right now, given just HOW many subreddits have shut down...
@arstechnica Wow, seems like Reddit had bad karma today.
Evan@arstechnica You absolutely love to see it.
Abazigal@arstechnica Is Ars down? I can’t access your webpage at all.
Luna:babaw_is: NOT 
@arstechnica It was absolutely glorious to see reddit go down due to the protests
Dragon-sided D@arstechnica I deleted my Reddit account. Join me!
HawkmoonOn my second day after leaving Reddit, I realized how much mobile data that app was eating.
Positively gluttonous and getting ready to hop on the IPO gravy train.