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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[–]MaiqTheTrue 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Because of third party apps overriding the actual interface. The average user doesn’t see the overuse of ads, the avatars, the chat, etc. Digg never had a bunch of third party apps to fix his code for them so the changes stuck out more.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a good point. I thought reddit screwed this up when they moved to the redesign, but their smart move was keeping old.reddit.com. If they got rid of that during the redesign several years ago, we probably would've seen a digg situation. Smart move on reddit's part to keep the legacy design accessible.