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slowmotiony on April 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The button: social experiment driving Reddit crazy

That's because it's bullshit. Reddit goes down all the time.

eterm on April 13, 2015 [–]

A particular server goes down (well, gives you a busy message), the whole of reddit doesn't "go down".

Also this uses websockets to different servers outside of the normal content servers.

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