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
It's obviously harder to scale down than to scale up!
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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.
