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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rozap on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:04PM (#36295746)
Maybe it's expensive to generate the 403 for a private subreddit.

A place I once worked had a 404 handler that was extremely expensive, but nobody noticed for a while because 404s are relatively rare. One time a vulnerability scanner took down the site because it was just hitting known vulnerability paths which all 404'd. The code that executed during a 404 was n^2.

Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rspoerri on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:27PM (#36296160)
As long as n=1 it‘s no problem :-)
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rozap on Monday June 12, 2023 @04:39PM (#36300722)
That's exactly why the problem didn't reveal itself for a while :)