Reddit blaming website crashing on subreddits going private (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by w2tpmf@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Reddit went through some issues for many on Monday, with the outage happening the same day as thousands of subreddits going dark to protest the site’s new API pricing terms.

According to Reddit, the blackout was responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. The company said the outage was fully resolved at 1:28PM ET.

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[-] LDRMS@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I personally closed 4 subreddits yesterday. Happy to play my part.🤣🤣

[-] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I closed my 500k member subreddit yesterday!

It feels sad, but it needs to happen. We've moved here to Kbin - @Disneyland - and I linked it in the "we're going private" message.

Hopefully we get people to come over. We have half the original mod team and I'm still trying to convince the other half to join up before Kbin closes registration (I'm not sure if you can mod across instances).

[-] Esquilax@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Is closing different than setting to private? I had seen some comments suggesting that some mods should delete their subs altogether. Just curious if there are some options that are more nuclear than others

[-] damniel@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

No I don't think you can delete a subreddit. Just setting it to private indefinitely

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