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API pricing protests caused Reddit to crash for 3 hours (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw a lot of people saying they used bots to rewrite their entire post history to things like "fuck /u/spez"

I'm thinking that amount of comment editing might be quite the spike on the servers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I did that, but not "fuck u/spez" because that might get the comment deleted altogether making the edit meaningless. Instead I edited to say the comments been deleted in protest against the API changes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If enough of us do it, entire comment chains will be illegible lol