Trace it to the root of the problem, if the subreddits going dark took the servers down, then what made all the subreddits go dark 🤔
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I read somewhere on one of these federated sites (I'd have to dig through my history to find it) that it's essentially the spaghetti code that is Reddit. This person, who claimed to have worked at Reddit years ago, said that the aggregation engine for things like r/all is very inefficient and when thousands of subreddits went dark it wouldn't be able to parse (or something like that).
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This definitely feels like the D&D OGL fiasco. That got some big news. It felt like Reddit was the primary platform for organizing that boycott. It's a shame that Reddit didn't learn any lessons from WOTC.