According to Reddit, the blackout was responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge.
Did they somehow have certain subreddits hardcoded into the frontpage algorithm? Lol.
Yeah, sounds like it, otherwise this should not be possible. And how they did not realize it is going to crash, didn’t they believe these subreddits would actually do it?