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It’s entirely possible that they’ve made some assumptions about what a “normal” level of traffic looks like when writing code for their backend, which has caused some things to break when that has changed.
Not our fault if their code is shit.
How is that an example of bad code?
Honestly, it’s probably not - if I’m actually right this is likely an issue that Reddit’s engineers never predicted would happen so never planned for it. I was being hyperbolic.
It's not reactive. A proper reactive system can handle fluctuations in usage patterns more robustly.
I'm having a hard time believing the claim that Reddit's code isn't reactive.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's just a gigantic mess of nested if-else statements.
Gotos all the way down
Maybe, but this was a huge increase in usage. Reddit never expected to deal with anywhere near thousands of subs going private simultaneously.