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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did... Did this really happen?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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