Wow, that was eye-opening.
Maybe a suggestion would be to have certain filters. Anyone below the age of 18 wouldn't be able to view posts by groups/people that have been flagged as "NSFW" posters? I know Tumblr implemented a similar idea a while ago.
Opening this file in a hex editor shows that the file consists of almost all spaces, which I'm assuming are all on one line, making the text editors crash.
Well, VIM doesn't crash :) But edge cases in general are where the bugs lurk, and 9MBs of spaces is certainly an edge case. A possible cause might be that they try to render the whole line, try to allocate too much memory, and crash when the allocation fails. Whereas if the file had many lines, they'd probably be smart enough to only render part of it.
Which would imply that their soft-wrap algorithm consumes an inordinate amount of time when confronted with a single, 9MB long, line of space characters.