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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by ryanstorm »

bbbobbb wrote: post #217
memetomancer wrote: post #170

So... I visited Reddit before coming here and finding the HN thread... Most of the site is rebelling, but I took the time to visit, intending to give them impressions, just to see how they are holding up. And of course they aren't really holding up as we can see. But their handling is unbelievably tone deaf - I was greeted by the message that I broke Reddit. They gave me the grade of 'F'. I refreshed the page and the…

Those error pages are actually infuriating. Maybe I'm just getting older but seeing "You broke reddit" and all the other shit annoys the hell out of me. It's their website, the error should be "we fucked sometning up, sorry" and be done with it.

Imagine being a non-tech savvy user or someone who understands the world more literally than figuratively. That sort of message could be pretty confusing for them.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by 29083011397778 »

nullityrofl wrote: post #233
SkyMarshal wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.

You can't be using Reddit very often if you think these are a relic from 10+ years ago. I would say I experience a Reddit outage at least weekly. My friends and I have a running joke about how often it's down. The official Reddit Status Twitter account proves that it happens very, very regularly: https://twitter.com/redditstatus

To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party apps, I don't actually recall the last time Reddit didn't load for me.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by ChocMontePy »

lcrz wrote: post #112
leetharris wrote: post #59

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No one is upset because reddit wants to make the API paid. Several 3rd party apps were looking forward to working with reddit in this regard. People are upset because: - Reddit has been terrible and dishonest in their communication - Reddit is dropping Twitter-like pricing out of the blue - These prices seem to have the goal of killing 3rd party apps instead of merely being ‘realistic’ or ‘fair’, like Reddit is claim…

> Reddit has been terrible and dishonest in their communication

Partly true. They have been awful at communicating with the devs and with Reddit at large. The "dishonest" claim is debatable.

> Reddit is dropping Twitter-like pricing out of the blue.

False. That was a piece of dishonesty spread by the Apollo developer. Twitter's price is 3.5x Reddit's price, which is 3.6x Imgur's price. Reddit is midway between the two.

> These prices seem to have the goal of killing 3rd party apps instead of merely being ‘realistic’ or ‘fair’, like Reddit is claiming

False. Relay for Reedit just announced plans to continue their app by offering a $3 paid version. This moderate price wouldn't be possible if Reddit's price was aimed at killing off the apps.

> Reddit is dragging well respected devs through the mud and trying to make them look like the bad guys

Maybe the devs ARE the bad guys. I've not been impressed by them.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by thehumanmeat »

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…

Definitely smells like some sad reddit mod got upset and is enacting "payback".

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by mplanchard »

norrland4ever wrote: post #240
garciasn wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789

What is /. ?

slashdot.org

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by brazzledazzle »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #61
skhr0680 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

Completely out of line to connect admin abuse with pedophilia.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by agloe_dreams »

skulk wrote: post #227
archon wrote: post #130

Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.

Another anecdote: top posts of all time load for me, even top posts this week. But front page and r/popular don't.

I would expect most of the 'top' categories are cached with a long-ish TTL. If Reddit's DB is down that would explain why those types of sorts are functioning.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by deadcat »

norrland4ever wrote: post #240
garciasn wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789

What is /. ?

Slashdot website, which was once a massive tech discussion site.
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