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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

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.

No, it doesn't

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by albert_e »

EMCymatics wrote: post #42
robertakarobin wrote: post #26

It seems many services are experiencing an uptick in outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/

I'll be pissed if outlook goes down again

As someone not responsible for Outlook, the last time we had Outlook/AD outage ... the sense of calm that I experienced knowing that no one is able to send me any emails even if just for an hour ... cannot be explained in mere words :)

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by tsunamifury »

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place.

Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by chunk_waffle »

r721 wrote: post #33

There's a spike on Downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/ Nothing on redditstatus.com (yet?): https://www.redditstatus.com/ UPD Currently on redditstatus.com: >Reddit Failing to Load >Identified - We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. Jun 12, 2023 - 07:58 PDT

There's lies, damn lies, and status pages.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by tdstein »

Smells like a DDoS.

It's difficult to know if it is a coordinated attack or an unexpected side effect of the protest.

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: application/json Access-Control-Expose-Headers: retry-after, x-sentry-rate-limits, x-sentry-error Vary: Origin Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:49:00 GMT Content-Length: 45 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://www.reddit.com retry-after: 14 x-sentry-rate-limits: 14:default;error;security;attachment:organization:error_usage_exceeded

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by hendersoon »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #48
graeme wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's likely true that most people just browse, don't login, and don't subscribe to subreddits they enjoy. Of course those people don't contribute to their site either, although they do see the advertisements.

Anyway for those of us that do login and follow specific topics, I can speak for my own experience, which is that every single subreddit I read was shutdown this morning other than r/worldnews and r/diablo4.

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