At approximately 12:35am ET, #reddit's database suddenly skipped ~48 million ids ahead for some unknown reason.
The comment ids skipped from somewhere around 34452008981 to somewhere around 34500000081.
Here are two comments showing the large gap:
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Something appears to have gone horribly wrong with Reddit's DB ID scheme and this will break a lot of people's ingests. So if you are ingesting Reddit data and it suddenly broke -- this is why.
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The ingest works by asking for ids in a sequential fashion. If there is suddenly millions of missing ids, it will walk across a dead zone for hours / days.