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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by amelius on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:51PM (#21011299)
Can't they run in read-only mode during maintenance? That would be a relatively simple workaround, I suppose.
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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Sendotsh on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:53PM (#21011309)
They used to. Not sure why they don’t now.
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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by disjhshava on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:57PM (#21011345)
I remember the read-only mode as some presumably cached pre-rendered html, not sure if it ever existed for the app/api. I wonder if the read-only mode didn't mesh well with the single page app they have been pushing - perhaps it wasn't monetized in the same way.
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