I don't doubt Reddit's ops competency, I doubt we will see any problems. I am sure they have people going through the mental exercise of "what is this 'strike' going to do to our infra?"
As an ops person the only time I have ever thought "It's going very well" is when something I expected to cause an outage didn't or a new automation seems to be working properly.
Everything else is change and failure is proportional to change. 5000 subreddits going dark is definitely change, and I would definitely be anxious about the uncharted territory, not happy to see low load on the servers.
I think I would be worried about these people who are downloading their post histories, deleting their post histories, or potentially mass deletion of accounts. Requests against old posts and uncached content could potentially be expensive. Of course, without a deep understanding of Reddit's infra/architecture, it's hard to really estimate what kind of problems might arise.
As an ops person the only time I have ever thought "It's going very well" is when something I expected to cause an outage didn't or a new automation seems to be working properly.
Everything else is change and failure is proportional to change. 5000 subreddits going dark is definitely change, and I would definitely be anxious about the uncharted territory, not happy to see low load on the servers.
I think I would be worried about these people who are downloading their post histories, deleting their post histories, or potentially mass deletion of accounts. Requests against old posts and uncached content could potentially be expensive. Of course, without a deep understanding of Reddit's infra/architecture, it's hard to really estimate what kind of problems might arise.