Hacker News seems to be struggling rn too. I'm guessing people started scraping Reddit, then it crashed so people are coming here instead.
Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#142Lots 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.
Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.
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there's a very big difference between trying to become profitable and making a change that forces every 3rd party app to shutdown within 30 days because of an asinine price hike on their API
The transparency has been horseshit from spez and the other admin. As it's been pointed out, when Apple bought Dark Sky, 30 months were given to anyone using the API to adjust to the new landscape. These 3rd party apps that have been around longer than Reddit's app were given 30 days. And that doesn't even take into account the finger-pointing and immature behavior Spez threw at Christian (the Apollo app-maker)
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I'm also seeing HN being sluggish. But I have crap Australian internet so YMMV.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm surprised he didn't get more flack for this when he last courted controversy by changing posts critical of him.
What surprises me is that he's not ousted by the board yet. Surely at this point he's causing more trouble than he's worth?
Maybe he knows where all the skeletons are buried, so the board removing him would be to difficult (or they're not ready to pay his golden parachute/buy his silence)
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#146Lots 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
A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago
I'm not sure if this is true, but if I were a creator and admin of a site, I'd assume I'm automatically a mod of every subreddit or subforum. It doesn't necessarily mean spez was specifically moderating that sub.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
outages are incredibly common everywhere
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#148spez 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).
There is a lot of fake/controlled activity and frequently this is leveraged against tech executives.
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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.
Probably DDoS more likely today
Did they DDoS themselves trying to fake numbers to show that the blackout has no effect on daily active user counts?
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Doesn't seem that unbelievable when you look into some of the other stuff he's done. For example he secretly used his admin powers to edit user comments from users he didn't like or who criticized him.
I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for. EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.
the accusation of editing comments I believe to be confirmed as fact, everything else I am not sure of.