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Reddit goes down just as a site-wide protest kicks off

• martinsnow 3y ago
  > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt. I wonder what issue they were facing?
  • episteme 3y ago
    Strange that the issue was anticipated too.
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• skilled 3y ago
  I mean, no offense, but how is this news and why is this being upvoted? There is an ongoing discussion with 500 comments on the front page, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294244 The site has been back up since more than hour ago. **And there is literally 0 connection to be made between this outage and the actual protest.** --- As is pointed out by the article, apparently there is connection.
  • meepmorp 3y ago
    > And there is literally 0 connection to be made between this outage and the actual protest From the linked article: > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt.
• deleted 3y ago
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