old.reddit.com works. Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. Reddit being overwhelmed for a couple minutes seems like a daily occurance since forever, but wsb is really pushing their capacity at times.
My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
> Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets.
There's only 300K people reading that subreddit at the moment. During the peak earlier in the month it was over a million. (edits, refreshed 4 mins later and it's just under 500K).
Also, for the conspiracy fans, notice that the majority of the rise (90 -> 199) has happened / is happening during post market hours when normal users (retail) cant do anything. 50->90 happened during normal trading hours.