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Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by backtoyoujim »

kingTug wrote: post #6

Hackernews is crawling also. How am I to procrastinate?!

the lights are flashing from their screens and the bunnies is still furiously tapping their paddles in their cages meanwhile the treats stoppeth for no matter how many times paw goes to button there are not more treats to be had.

the experiment is over.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by 323 »

People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by Rebelgecko »

djbusby wrote: post #2

With all the tech layoffs they can get some SREs? Gotta be online to sell ads for your IPO.

I can't link to it right now since the link is on reddit, but it's kinda funny timing with the rant one of their recruiters did on LinkedIn over the weekend

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by flutas »

Wonder if some of their critical infra got hit by a power outage?[0]

Really a power outage shouldn't cause this as backups and generators...but maybe something was overlooked?

Guess we will just have to wait and see what the postmortem says.

[0]: Context: https://poweroutage.us/

EDIT: Seems like a no based on the latest update.

> Identified - We've identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix.

Re: Reddit Is Down

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Post by kibwen »

Reddit is down at least once a week, but this is certainly a different error message than normal: "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers". Normally it's just something vague like "Oops, something went wrong".

I'm also amused at the possible explanation that they might have simply improved their error messages, causing us to assume this is a different sort of outage than usual.

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