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Re: Reddit Is Down

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post #6

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

Hah! I’m sitting here waiting for eye surgery and figured it was slow hospital wifi. You’re right, though. Other sites are quick!

If someone screws up and kills me, HN will be the last thing I remember. ;-)

Re: Reddit Is Down

#24
post #21
post #6

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

Hah! I’m sitting here waiting for eye surgery and figured it was slow hospital wifi. You’re right, though. Other sites are quick! If someone screws up and kills me, HN will be the last thing I remember. ;-)

FWIW the usual outcome of messing up eye surgery is blindness, not death. Good luck! :)

Re: Reddit Is Down

#26
post #17

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 f…

Is reddit on-prem or in the cloud? If in the cloud, AWS/GCE have tons of redundancy in power, internet connectivity, etc.

Re: Reddit Is Down

#28
post #15

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.

Is there a directory of known AI forum-posting bots? Would be interesting to see what uses they’re being put to / what they’re tuned to talk about.

Re: Reddit Is Down

#30
post #18

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.

I've seen this one plenty of times.
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