Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down - The company blamed the protest for causing issues across its website and mobile apps.

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[–]ExplodingToasterOven 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You've got hundreds of thousands of bots pinging subreddits they can't access, effectively a DDOS.

[–]magnora7 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting point, makes a lot of sense, especially if they all keep attempting to access repeatedly after the first failed attempt