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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#91

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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.

Might be something unique to your own setup or location. Never noticed this myself in years.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#92
What I am presenting below is a joke. Their counts went way low so the monitoring said something is odd a drop of 50% is quite abnormal and failed them over. Same story on the other side. Now they are trying to change the thresholds to say that do not alert or fail over on these thresholds. But while they were doing that they got their EKS bill and they realized they can make / save more money just by being down.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#93
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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.

I run into issues on occasion, usually with loading comments. I use the web interface.

Interestingly, HN is being really slow for me right now and also gave an error when I first loaded it. Maybe something more global is going on, like network or cdn issues?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#94

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.

Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.

What's up guys!? That's me. Really enjoying my time on HN so far. It reminds of what Reddit used to be like.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Being unprofitable and seeking profit does not entitle someone to bait and switch tactics. And that's simply what this is, just over a longer time-scale.

Bait and switch tactics are immoral and in some cases illegal.

Yes, companies should seek profitability, yes it's good for the infinite VC money to stop propping up unhealthy companies. No, unhealthy companies shouldn't seek to get to profitability by abusing their users.

> I know people are upset about the CEO being a twat, but that's a separate issue.

Is it separate? Given that he's being a twat to the specific person that originally raised the concerns

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#97

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.

HN tends to slow to a crawl every time Reddit is offline, because Redditors come here instead.

Truly unfortunate, perhaps there's value to be had with Reddit after all

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#99

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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.

That's likely to be a routing problem, related to your ISP or something in between. Reddit really is not down that much.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#100
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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 easily 90% of the subs that people actually go to Reddit for.

Nobody cares about the 400 subscriber subreddit from some small town in Idaho with 3 people online at any given moment.

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