Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and the one-line fix) (opens in new tab)

Why my Reddit scraper went from 92% to 61% success rate in 30 days (and how I fixed it in one config flag) I publish a small Reddit scraper actor on the Apify Store. It was my most-used actor: ~$30/mo in revenue, 70+ unique users per month, 92% success rate. A month later, the success rate had collapsed to 61%. The actor was throwing on 40% of runs. Users stopped coming back. Revenue dropped to almost zero. Here's what happened and the one-line fix that brought it back. The symptom Every fail...