On the same day thousands of subreddits went private.

On the first day of a sitewide protest at Reddit’s planned API changes, the website has been going through an outage.

  • Deedasmi
    1•1 year ago

    “Because” is a pretty strong word. I’d be surprised if it was related at all.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      I dunno, private subreddits probably can’t be cached the same as public ones, they probably need to authenticate every request… I’m sure Reddit never thought to optimise for having so many subs go private 😝