Protip: If you desperately need your fix, load reddit in an incognito window. You'll get the last cached version from the CDN.
Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
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#53Better to break it entirely than to show the blackout, I guess.
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#54Lots 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.
Does it? I usually use Reddit on my lunch about this time every day and I can't remember the last time it was down.
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#55This 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
The lack of subreddits could be driving users to the same remaining part of the site, interfering with load balancing
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#56HN is experiencing some serious slowness, I wonder if everyone is checking here.
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#57Putting my tinfoil hat on, could they be doing it deliberately? So spez can blame the drop in visitors on a random outage rather than the boycott?
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#58HN is acting slow in responsiveness too, DDoS?
Where else do you think the wave of reddit users will crash? Slashdot? Some federated assemblage like Mastodon or Lemmy? An indie clone trying to be to reddit what reddit was to digg? I'm guessing all of the above.
The "federated" alternatives are such crap. It's so user-unfriendly and confusing, there is no way a normal person would be able to enjoy browsing crap like lemmy/kbin.
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#60HN 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.
Would love more detailed information on the actual issues and fixes (if any) from the HN admins if they want to share.