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Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by anoncake »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143
hu3 wrote: post #109

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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.

Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

I love the redesign. I used to spend way to much time on Reddit, the redesign fixed that.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by dumbfoundded »

hobofan wrote: post #237
conception wrote: post #213

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Yeah this already exists and was done pretty well actually.

Except for the part of how the Steem token works, which basically means that built-in unmarked ads are needed for the economy to work.

Yeah but that's kind of nitpicking. If you're looking for a "decentralized reddit" on blockchain, it's pretty hard to argue Steemit isn't this.

There's others too. People are free to fork it and make a new platform. Most of the hard work is already done unless you want to change absolutely everything about it.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

anoncake wrote: post #271
JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #143

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Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.

I love the redesign. I used to spend way to much time on Reddit, the redesign fixed that.

Haha I love that. Maybe I should turn on the redesign.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by joatmon-snoo »

arcticfox wrote: post #203
sethammons wrote: post #185

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I've come close to that many, many times with zero downtime. It does take planning, more than many folks would think. But it can be done as long as you think it through.

I've never done anything close to that scale of migration, but I also can't really imagine taking an approach that feels like a huge migration. I feel like I would try to strangle the old app (putting proxies in front and redirecting endpoints as they're rewritten) rather than swapping it out wholesale. At that point I don't know if it really counts as a migration as much as just development. Any thoughts on that app…

That isn't a data migration, that's a release.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by propogandist »

city41 wrote: post #230
propogandist wrote: post #115

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Each outbound link on reddit is tracked, similar to how Google tracks users clicking on SERPs. This can be tied back to a user to build profile on your interests, in addition to sub-reddits you subscribe to etc. which can be valuable if combined with other demographic data about you. I dont know if they started selling this data directly. Last I spoke to ad people there, they had plans to build out their own tracking…

You can turn off outbound link tracking in the privacy section of preferences. Uncheck “allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization”

which means your logged in and your behavior and activity is captured, and available for ad-targeting anyway. There's no real opt-out.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by tinus_hn »

BostonEnginerd wrote: post #260
tootahe45 wrote: post #243

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I stopped criticizing redesigns because i usually get over it, but the Reddit one makes the site at least 8x slower for me.

That’s been my complaint. The old server side rendered site was really fast to load. Ever since the first redesign a few years back it’s been really slow.

Here’s half the page you requested, and some other ‘related’ crap.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by tatersolid »

tzs wrote: post #198
manigandham wrote: post #48

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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.

What do "modern users" demand that the various current GUI Usenet clients are missing?

Relevant content and other interesting people.

Look, I loved Usenet back in 1994, it was one of my first great Internet obsessions. But it effectively died in terms of relevance before the turn of the century. The majority simply preferred web forums.

Usenet was always a pain to use, posts would routinely get mangled or dropped entirely, and the multiple user-driven quoting conventions and wonky clients made any long-lived threaded discussion impossible.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by Alex3917 »

throwaway8879 wrote: post #155
Alex3917 wrote: post #83

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> the people who talk about USENET and IRC are people who don't want to be "updated" to what modern users demand. IRC is objectively terrible. If you ask a question, the only way to get the answer is if you stay logged in until someone answers you. That's like buying a phone that doesn't ring unless you're already holding it up to your ear, or an email client that deletes all your email unless you happen to be lookin…

> objectively terrible These two words next to each other really bother me. That something is "terrible" is not objective, whatever that means. All we have are our subjective valuations.

What I meant was more like, when viewed impartially rather than through the lens of nostalgia. Two people can do that and still have different opinions.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by manigandham »

ekianjo wrote: post #270
manigandham wrote: post #193

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This is like the famous comment in the "Show HN: Dropbox" thread that said you could just use rsync/ftp/git instead. Meanwhile Dropbox is now worth over $8B.

Not sure why the value of anything makes my point invalid? I answered there was a simple way for anyone using IRC to keep sessions alive and therefore not miss any message. This is an off the shelf solution, not something you have to build by yourself.

Because it's a workaround, and shows just how far apart the legacy tech is from a modern experience.

Re: Reddit was down for over two hours

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Post by tomnipotent »

opmac wrote: post #173
dna_polymerase wrote: post #146

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> they could have rewritten the site from the ground up, including any sort of data migration, multiple times over by now. Sigh, every. fucking. time. > I have never worked there, ... or anywhere else where high traffic is involved, right? It's always the people without any real world experience who come up with these BS claims about how everyone else is stupid and how it could be done differently. > ... but outside…

You've managed to say a lot without really saying anything. You make plenty of baseless assumptions about my background and ambitions... but I'm not even going to try to address my professional experience (or lack thereof) because it doesn't matter, since you're just using it as a straw man to deflect criticism. The facts are as follows: 1. Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world. 2. Throughout nea…

> Reddit is one of the highest visited websites in the world > Throughout nearly their entire history, they've struggled to put together a way to make money.

True, but irrelevant. It also means they handle more traffic per dollar than probably any other site in it's category.

> They have notorious uptime.

Browsing https://reddit.statuspage.io/ for less than a minute proves this is hyperbolic bull.

> and have contributed essentially nothing to the technical community in their entire history

It's not like the reddit source code hasn't been open source forever. But sure, whatever you say. Would have taken you 10 seconds to Google before spouting off nonsense.

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