Ask HN: Why is Reddit so slow and unreliable?

Post by aprdm » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 1:32 AM UTC

ent101 wrote: post #5

GekkePrutser wrote: post #4

Well their JavaScript "new" site sucks so horribly that it even brings my heavy gaming PC to its knees. Clearly they have no clue what they're doing (probably at management level, even bad devs can do better than this) or they have a ton of legacy code they're trying to write around. But even the old one had its issues. Deep threads with thousands of posts would often crash when you clicked the "read more" to go deep…

There are many frontend issues for sure. But I just don't understand why so many HTTP requests to the site fail. E.g. pages are simply blank about 20% of the time.

Post by technion » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 1:41 AM UTC

hamburgerwah wrote: post #16

They pay their engineers below and in cases half of market rates, place no organizational value on quality engineering, their CEO/head engineer is a buffoon and they have a history of screwing people with regard to equity compensation. It's not a complicated explanation at all.

Post by tootie » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 1:43 AM UTC

garbagecoder wrote: post #29

Reddit should be a quarter page box in a social psychology book about groupthink. It’s a shit website and there are better link aggregators.

Post by reportgunner » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 8:55 AM UTC

tootie wrote: post #45

garbagecoder wrote: post #29

Reddit should be a quarter page box in a social psychology book about groupthink. It’s a shit website and there are better link aggregators.

Reddit does what it does very well. Any community that gets past a certain size is going to suffer the same problems. A lot of front page subs like /r/funny or whatever are overwhelmed with noise. The specialty communities around a game or hobby or industry are frequently great. Invaluable in some cases.