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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by treis »

pyeri wrote: post #137
paxys wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Probably a massive shift of traffic to still open subs. That'd probably take it down due to caches suddenly having all the wrong data. No inside info, though.

HN seems to be groaning under the load too and might go down with Reddit.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by invokestatic »

skhr0680 wrote: post #36
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

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

Back when Obama hosted an AMA on Reddit, a bunch of users added his account as a moderator to a bunch of subreddits, including some pretty objectionable ones. This prompted a change that moderators would be invited instead.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by bobbob1921 »

hgsgm wrote: post #22

The front page is full of posts and most of them link to the "page not found" error page, and most of the rest link to "you don't have access" (I forget the exact wording).

Same for me on Reddit (page not found)- Also hn is throwing occasional “can’t serve your request” errors

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by fullstop »

cramjabsyn wrote: post #64

Today is the coordinated reddit "protest" day. Some ideas off the top of my head... DDOS activity from pissed off stakeholders related to the protest System ops using their access to further blackout action A botched administrative action to reopen subs

I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by capableweb »

tdstein wrote: post #89

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…

There is also a DDPA (Distributed Digital Preservation "Attack") ongoing that maybe make things worse too.
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