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

submitted 1 year ago by nulluser@lemmy.world to c/technology

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[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.one 41 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.

[–] lawliot 21 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.

[–] Gork 17 points 1 year ago

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