Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#1

Post by scorpion032 » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:00 PM UTC

For the first time ever the admins have pushed a hand curated content (where did they get that one from?) to the top.

Seems to be like the community is well past the state of being angry when the site gets back up. They will be so glad that it is back at all. Need more donations Conde Nast?

Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours
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Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#2

Post by llambda » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

It's amazing that AWS has been affected this long, or rather that their customers have been; here focusing on one big customer, Reddit. But actually what seems more relevant to me, vis-à-vis sites like Reddit are services such as Heroku which were or still are affected. Although I can appreciate that Reddit is an extremely popular site, at the end of the day I'm more concerned with the development services that were impacted.

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#3

Post by cygwin98 » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:41 PM UTC

Maybe it's just me. I feel HN has become very sluggish this morning. Does that mean lots of redditors come over here?

Edit: Wierd, got downvoted. I do think this is related to the topic, so the failure of Amazon can have a domino effect, say, AWS fails -> Reddit fails -> HN sluggish/struggling -> ... Some times I really question the resilience of the social networks, as most of them may not be designed to handle 2x or 10x more load.

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#4

Post by scorpion032 » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

For the first time ever the admins have pushed a hand curated content (where did they get that one from?) to the top.

Seems to be like the community is well past the state of being angry when the site gets back up. They will be so glad that it is back at all. Need more donations Conde Nast?

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#5

Post by benthumb » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

cygwin98 wrote: post #3

Maybe it's just me. I feel HN has become very sluggish this morning. Does that mean lots of redditors come over here? Edit: Wierd, got downvoted. I do think this is related to the topic, so the failure of Amazon can have a domino effect, say, AWS fails -> Reddit fails -> HN sluggish/struggling -> ... Some times I really question the resilience of the social networks, as most of them may not be designed to handle 2x o…

Doing what we can to gum up the works, and don't mention it : - D

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#6

Post by zck » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:47 PM UTC

I was wondering why I was logged in, able to comment and vote.

They're letting back in members slowly, with Reddit Gold members having a larger chance of being allowed in: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gv63r/nobody_can... . Be sure to read the comments by jedberg, one of the reddit staff.

Edit: Now the top of reddit says:

>UPDATE: We are slowly getting our capacity back and as such allowing a random subsets of redditors access to the site as we increase capacity. Please check back soon, as you may be able to log in if you are lucky. Thanks!

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#7

Post by davidreiss666 » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

They are sort of limping back up now. Some users -- seems to be mostly gold users right now -- can get in.

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#8

Post by random42 » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:48 PM UTC

Btw, has Amazon commented about potential irrecoverable/lost changes/damages, if any?

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#9

Post by blhack » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

I'm kindof curious how they're going to deal with the self-serve ads that were supposed to run yesterday.

Just a straight refund, or...?

/me patiently waiting for it to come back up so that I can buy some for next week... :(

Re: Reddit has now been down for 30+ hours

#10

Post by Wipe » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 4:53 PM UTC

http://is.gd/uSk5yI