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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.
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
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 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
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.
Unless HN is equally slow while logged out that's just HN being "really slow"
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.
First, deciding what to put on them is PM hell. Is it customer-facing? Developer-facing? Both?
Then, for each item, how do you test so you can be really sure? Half the time tests will produce either false negatives or false positives. If your test writes data (like, say, posting a comment), is it a meaningful test of it's to a test or demo topic? But if it's to real topics, the test itself becomes user impacting.
Or you can use traffic stats to estimate whether things are going well, but then your traffic stats are question. Something may report zero traffic when things are great, or normal traffic when things are broken.
Then you have the classic "the tests are failing because the testing infra is broken, but production users are fine."
There just isn't a good answer to most of the problems status pages face. So, yeah, they suck, but I think there may be a Godel argument here that it is not possible for them to be timely, meaningful, and accurate.
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
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
Fabricating? Or do you have some reason to believe this is true.
The wayback machine doesn't list him as a mod (SFW): https://web.archive.org/web/20100420183707/http://nl.reddit....
PS. Wow, the sidebar makes that sub seem even scummier than I assumed it was.
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…
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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.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...