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How does this work when reddit is down? I probably don't know a more unreliable site than reddit is, so this must have happened plenty of times since April 1st.

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Allegedly it has happened and the button was reset.

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

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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