Considering the timing and the fact they should be under significantly _reduced_ load today, I wonder if this could be sabotage by disgruntled employees<p>Then again maybe the blackout is having a Streisand effect where everyone is checking to see what's down, and perhaps usually traffic is sharded across subreddits that no longer exists
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I'm getting errors about 50% of the time right now.<p>I wonder if they have more users trying to access the same data than usual. A large portion of the popular subreddits are dark but I bet their userbase hasn't dropped that much, so you have more users loading the same posts and comments. It probably drastically changes the dynamics of their load.