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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Vrondi »

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 are the usual standard Reddit down error pages, though. Nothing unique to this outage or today. They've had those for years.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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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.

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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by takeda »

garciasn wrote: post #216
elegylegacy wrote: post #119

Earlier 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

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

There's also tildes.net (like early Reddit set up as non profit, invite only, but not hard to get an invite) and also open source distributed https://join-lemmy.org/

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by redsaber »

laurent123456 wrote: post #218
BoxOfRain wrote: post #65

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The Lemmy instance I’m on has also slowed to a crawl.

Many websites are having performance issues - https://downdetector.com It's as if Reddit had been taking the pressure off the rest of the internet all this time, and now that there's a blackout people actually starts working and visiting other websites

that would be funny, the traffic normally contain on Reddit will be redirect to other websites causing a chain of traffic issues to both Reddit and other websites

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by lost_padawan »

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

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by pizzalife »

garciasn wrote: post #216
elegylegacy wrote: post #119

Earlier 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

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

16 year club here.. same. I came to reddit from the digg DVD exodus. Time to drop this habit.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by ojizero »

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 /. ?

I believe he means Slashdot (https://slashdot.org).

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by jackson1442 »

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

definitely not the case, reddit has stated that they would not be doing that, at least for the two-day protest. would be incredibly bad PR at this scale, especially after repeatedly and directly making this statement.

however, they have stated that may do this if the protest extends beyond the 48h mark.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by gremlinsinc »

DaSHacka wrote: post #244
jeanlucas wrote: post #228

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One thing that could be happening is many clients/bots/crawlers pinging pages that gone private now and that is overwhelming servers.

Wouldn't that be easier on the server load? You're ust displaying the error page instead of actually grabbing the feed of the subreddit

this is Reddit, they only hire junior devs.
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