Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Reddit was down for over two hours

reddit.statuspage.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 283 posts

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#51

Post by beamatronic »

manigandham wrote: post #48
bitwize wrote: post #27

Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…

Except UX is everything. 100s of billions in corporate value are based on nothing more than better UX. If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.

It’s too bad Google doesn’t take on this project.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#52

Post by reilly3000 »

jzwinck wrote: post #38
reilly3000 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The revenue per minute of these sites is in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. While that can be budgeted for if needed, its not just inconvenient for users, it could mean missing a revenue target.

I don't think Reddit grosses a hundred billion USD per year. Do you? That would put it very close to Microsoft.

Right. Reddit's ad revenue is forecasted at 100M this year, so ~$190/min. I was more referring to Facebook's $65B annual revenue, which is $123,668 / min. That's like an FTE's annual salary each minute, so throwing people at uptime has lots of ROI.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#53

Post by Klonoar »

manigandham wrote: post #48
bitwize wrote: post #27

Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…

Except UX is everything. 100s of billions in corporate value are based on nothing more than better UX. If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.

Citing UX in a thread about Reddit, the company with an almost universally hated redesign that moved away from a mostly text-based condensed format is... interesting.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#54

Post by spraak »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #11
tossAfterUsing wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i miss the fail whale. IMO, their javascript UX is awful... impossible to see all the comments in a thread! what sort of nonsense is that? old.reddit.com ftw

https://i.reddit.com/ ft-mobile-w

Whoa, that is orders of magnitude faster than the default mobile site. Thank you for sharing, I didn't know about it

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#55

Post by pjc50 »

bitwize wrote: post #27

Y'know, the toll that all this activity takes on Reddit's servers gave me an idea for a sort of distributed Reddit. News links and stories assorted into topic-based groups, with the option for users to comment or respond to others' comments in a threaded discussion. It would be completely decentralized and belong to the users, not some central media company. We could call it Users' Network, or USENET for short. We co…

So, who does the moderation, new group creation, and antispam? Those were always problems.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#56

Post by manigandham »

dymk wrote: post #15
cdiddy2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they don't make much money so don't have the same redundancy luxuries as other sites

They’re Alexa rank #16 globally - that they’re having trouble monetizing their userbase just means they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing.

They don't make nearly as much as others with that traffic. Brand safety issues with subreddits and discussions, anonymous user profiles, poor mobile experience, mostly link aggregation instead of content, high adblocking, etc.

Here's an old answer of mine comparing reddit's $7M to Instagram's $700M in 2014: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-reddits-advertising-revenues-o...

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#57

Post by [deleted] »

Klonoar wrote: post #53
manigandham wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except UX is everything. 100s of billions in corporate value are based on nothing more than better UX. If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.

Citing UX in a thread about Reddit, the company with an almost universally hated redesign that moved away from a mostly text-based condensed format is... interesting.

[deleted]

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#58

Post by ping_pong »

coryrc wrote: post #17
dymk wrote: post #12

Reddit is the only major social media/aggregator I can think of that actually has to go offline for scheduled maintenance still. I can’t imagine the kind of shitshow it must be internally. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter had to go down regularly for “maintenance”. Heads would roll.

So what? 24/7 builds up to fragility like the NYC subway system or has huge costs. It's social media, not a hospital.

It's more the fact that the engineers working there should be embarrassed, not that it's important. You would think that the engineers there would be able to improve their infrastructure after a few years but it's still as flaky now as it was a few years ago. That doesn't speak well of the caliber of engineers there.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

#59

Post by manigandham »

Klonoar wrote: post #53
manigandham wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except UX is everything. 100s of billions in corporate value are based on nothing more than better UX. If only everyone who talks about usenet, IRC, and the rest could actually be bothered to update the experience to what modern users demand.

Citing UX in a thread about Reddit, the company with an almost universally hated redesign that moved away from a mostly text-based condensed format is... interesting.

Every user engagement metric has increased since the redesign. Unfortunate for some of us, and it doesn't preclude the metrics measuring the wrong thing, but that's reality on the ground.

Same reason why Gmail is a bloated mess, because that's what the metrics show is wanted by users.

Post reply on HN