Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

41–50 of 696 posts

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#41

Post by selykg »

Well they're definitely making it easier for me to avoid Reddit going forward. I really do not like using the mobile reddit app and the whole 3rd party api debacle has me looking at alternative communities and I've found a couple of good stand-ins for the two most frequented ones for me on Reddit.

I can probably replace the video game related ones with some RSS feeds for some popular gaming news sites. No big deal there.

I replaced r/financialindependence with bogleheads and r/guitar with thegearpage.

I'll definitely miss some of the random subs, but whatever. Reddit has been a time sink for me for awhile this is a great excuse to move on.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#46

Post by ljm »

paxys wrote: post #17
r0bbbo wrote: post #6

Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry

Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.

80% of requests to Reddit via their web UI are basically 500s or CDN errors.

Hyperbolic I know, but that’s what it feels like.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#47

Post by innocenat »

FPL_Truth wrote: post #31
innocenat wrote: post #4

Reddit almost always have problem around this time everyday though.

The site doesn't have global outages every day, come on now.

If it doesn't it sure feel that way. Around 12am to 2am Japan time there will be a period of time where I simply cannot access Reddit.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#48

Post by iLoveOncall »

graeme wrote: post #28
iLoveOncall wrote: post #14

This is just the usual message you get when they are overloaded. Goes to show how successful this "boycott" is.

Over 90% of subreddits are currently dark. Impossible they had an excess of traffic

By far not 90% of the subs are dark. It's 6000 subs out of 500,000, or 1.2%.

Most people don't care at all about this blackout and are just checking the homepage anyway, which will always pull content no matter what.

Reddit always has issues at this time (NA wakes up, EU gets off of work), nothing unusual.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#49

Post by gnicholas »

rockbruno wrote: post #10

HN is also really slow, this could be a wider-spread backend issue like when that one CDN took down half of the internet with it.

Yeah HN is taking ~5 seconds to load anything, and weirdly sometimes it shows that it's waiting on Algolia, even when I'm loading regular HN pages (not searching).
Post reply on HN