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  • Chainweasel@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    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 🤔

    • BattleOften@beehaw.org
      22·
      2 years ago

      My guess is that it didn’t. I wonder if all of the subreddits going dark left the front page and r/all open to god knows what from more unsavory subs, and when Reddit realized that it was happening, pulled the plug until they were able to filter out anything less-than-corporate-allowable on the front page.

    • miraclechalk@lemm.ee
      11·
      2 years ago

      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).

      • TurnMeIntoAGameCube@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’ve heard something similar. What I heard specifically was that the front page algorithm had to keep digging deeper and deeper to populate desired content; that this somehow tanked the site.

        (I’m not a dev or programmer, apologies if my Info isn’t exact)