Reddit Is Down • Hacker News Board

Passport4-Lurk wrote: post #11

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.

They have never placed any value on engineering, have a founder leading the engineering effort who is a complete buffoon and pay 30-50% less than similar silicon valley enterprises. It's not really much of a mystery at all why they are down so much.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by naikrovek » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 4:32 AM UTC

I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this.

If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life.

If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it is down, the very nature of attempting to visit a site that is down will inform me that the site is down. Under no circumstances do I need, or want, a HN post, or a post on any other site, telling me of such a thing.

Later in-depth analyses of what caused the outage are welcome, of course, because those contain information that I will not have already obtained on my own.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by aaomidi » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 5:00 AM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #26

I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this. If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life. If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it…

Are you confused that why a people of a certain website (HN) have upvoted an article about another certain website that you don't have interest in?

Half the content on this website is stuff that doesn't interest me, but that's the nature of crowd sourcing what interests people.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by hexa22 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 11:05 AM UTC

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #21

GreenWatermelon wrote: post #6

It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.

Reddit being down is a running joke since day one. I feel like us old timers just expect it

Reddit used to go down all the time but in the last 3 years it has been very stable and hardly ever goes down.