HN is also very slow. Looks like it can't handle all the traffic when Reddit is down. After all, it looks like these's significant overlap between Reddit and HN users, as much as HN folks see itself as a kind of elite when comparing to Reddit.
Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
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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.
No, I only ever use old.reddit and BaconReader. I've never used the new UI or the official app.
The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus
The "elevated error rates" always presents as an "oops, you broke reddit!" landing even on old.reddit. I imagine since it is an "elevated error rate" rather than a total outage that it might be localized to geo or some other kind of shard. I'm on the US West Coast, though, so I can't imagine I'm in a minority.
(Which is confirmed by the number of people responding to GP.)
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#273Well they're definitely making it easier for me to avoid Reddit going forward. I really do not like using the mobile reddit app and the whole 3rd party api debacle has me looking at alternative communities and I've found a couple of good stand-ins for the two most frequented ones for me on Reddit. I can probably replace the video game related ones with some RSS feeds for some popular gaming news sites. No big deal th…
Would be cool to have a directory with alternative communities for every subreddit
True, or even a centralized place for Reddit alternatives that's not on Reddit...
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative
Eternal June for HN begins…
Nah, floods of new users have come before. The lack of images, politics, and drama, combined with the "boring" design drives the undesirables away, leaving behind people who like talking about tech and other interests.
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#275What if Reddit took their site down as a counter protest?
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#276So... 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.
Looks like this is from 2008, so they just never updated it. https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/4778b17e939e...
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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#278Earlier 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
It's worth noting that a very old user (/u/andrewsmith1986 IIRC) responded that at that time it was possible to add arbitrary users as mods without needing interaction/feedback/etc. from the user in question. If that was the case, then any user being a mod on any particular sub at that time doesn't really mean much. Obviously I can't reference the comment in question right now, but I'll try to remember to circle back…
This counter-narrative is also misleading
Consider: spez was the voluntary "mod" of the entire platform as CEO, and he maintained that subreddit.
Excusing him for the unsolicited mod invite is just optics management. It would be like saying lowtax had no responsibility as co-signer for the existence of subforums that his paid or unpaid staff maintained.
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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
lobste.rs
I would like to participate there, but it is invite only, last I checked.
Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
#280Just goes to show that Reddit is more popular than ever. They can't even serve the increased traffic. Clearly the protestors are wrong and their going black is inefficient.