I'm skeptical. Most of the outages I've been involved in have been for way dumber reasons than that. Based on my dumb experience, my guess is that the handling

I'm skeptical. Most of the outages I've been involved in have been for way dumber reasons than that. Based on my dumb experience, my guess is that the handling for a user trying to access a private subreddit stressed some system that doesn't make sense to even exist.