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Isn't this more likely related to the CloudFlare outage, or some other technical issue? I'm not sure how subreddits going dark would bring down Reddit. The art

Isn't this more likely related to the CloudFlare outage, or some other technical issue? I'm not sure how subreddits going dark would bring down Reddit. The article mentions this possibility as an aside, but still ran with a headline that seems like a post hoc fallacy.

flutas 3y ago
Nope. Reddit admitted that it was due to the protest. > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-api-protest-subreddit-private-going-dark https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...
- karaterobot 3y ago
  Ahh, didn't know that. Thanks.
- tuple 3y ago
  "resolving the anticipated issue" I'm amazed that they can call it "expected" and "anticipated" after it took their site down, the very definition of something unanticipated and unintended happening.
EA-3167 3y ago
Does Reddit use Cloudflare? I was under the impression that they don't.
- cde-v 3y ago
  Your impression is correct. Reddit does not use Cloudflare and an employee explicitly said so in a post this morning about the cloudflare issues because people were blaming the reddit outage on it.
  - EA-3167 3y ago
    Got it, thanks for the info!