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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by mrzimmerman »

cfors wrote: post #24
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

Could also make a guess that the blackout has changed how their normal traffic patterns operate, causing some issues with autoscaling/hot partitions.

Yeah, my assumption was that something in some layer of their application isn’t well optimized when asked to return posts from a subreddit that has “gone dark” in whatever fashions the mods chose to do that.

For example, maybe it causes reads from the database take a lot longer than they normally would, locking up the database or causing the process the crash (again, that’s just pure speculation).

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by fumar »

fer wrote: post #25

spez to the investors: > No, you see, it was not a protest, it was simply a small outage, nothing to worry about. Joking aside, I have a few bots monitoring content and I saw ~10% drops in comment activity before the outage (vs. the baseline from last week).

You saw 10% comment drops in subreddits still available or are you saying 10% of comments overall on all of reddit including the privacy subreddits?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by cueo »

leetharris wrote: post #59

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I think you're missing the bigger picture here. The audience is not outraged because Reddit is trying to be profitable, it's their execution which has enraged the entire community. First, the time frame given to the 3P apps is basically something which seems like an attempt to weed the more popular ones as soon as possible, eg: Apollo, RIF, Sync. Second, the CEO is openly propagating misinformation and slandering the developers, particularly the creator of Apollo.

The devs are not asking for a free API forever, they just want Reddit to work with them and provide them with options - a sensible time frame and API pricing. Giving them a deadline of literally less than a month and an invoice of $20M doesn't show any goodwill at all on their part.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by pyeri »

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.

But this time it's different because most high traffic subs have already gone dark, so the traffic must be minimal as there will be very few posters relative to what the server can handle. And yet, I'm getting "You broke reddit" when I try to visit which is quite ironical.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by redmerchant2 »

londons_explore wrote: post #40

Reddit is up for me, and the homepage content actually seems, if anything, a little improved. There is lots of stuff from AskReddit and some tech subreddits I'm subscribed to. Gone is all the junk from /r/pics and memes etc. If my experience is common, this "48 hour blackout" won't have the intended effect.

If all you care about is news then it’s interchangeable with any news aggregator.

I’m in it for specialty subs which are all shut down. Hobby and niche interest subs which are the real life blood of the site IMO.

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