Can someone tell me how Reddit is down so much compared to other sites. It seems like it is down for an hour every other week.
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#12So? Reddit is frequently down.
Very frequently. Way more than should be acceptable for the 19th most visited site on the net.
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#13Can someone tell me how Reddit is down so much compared to other sites. It seems like it is down for an hour every other week.
Compared to other social media sites, maybe because if there is flashpoint, everyone on the site can get funneled towards it? On Facebook or Twitter you wouldn't find everyone commenting on the same "thread".
Does reddit do post mortems? If it did then we might have a clue.
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#14oh no, i wont be able to infinitely scroll through cat pictures and r/wtf. much bigger fish maybe it’s a good thing
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#15It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.
Is it mundane? It's been down for nearly an hour.
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#16oh no, i wont be able to infinitely scroll through cat pictures and r/wtf. much bigger fish maybe it’s a good thing
I usually go on Reddit to hear myself type about programming and politics. Now you people get to hear it
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#17It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.
Very likely to see a post-mortem for the incident show up right here on HN :)
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#19It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.
I suspect HN gets an influx of readers the instant Reddit goes down, one of them being me.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it mundane? It's been down for nearly an hour.
Reddit is down a lot, it’s almost a injoke on Reddit.
Not for an hour. This is unusual.
Scrolling through their uptime history, it looks like this was the biggest incident in 3 years, perhaps longer,
https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=14
https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=16
I looked through the whole thing back to 2011/09 and there was never more than a "6 component partial outage". Only a few "1 component major outage":
https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=26
The one just now was a "7 component major outage". Annoyingly, these links are going to be inaccurate in the future since they're paged from the present date.