Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Post by nullityrofl » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:40 PM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #303

nullityrofl wrote: post #233

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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

I use reddit daily, am constantly refreshing certain subreddits. Fwiw I use new reddit but I have all fancy settings disabled so it looks and works like old.reddit. I also use the iOS app daily. I’m also on the US West coast fwiw. And no reddit premium or anything like that. I literally never have outages or “You broke reddit” or stuff like that. Edit: I wonder if it’s because all the subreddits I’m on are low or med…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:41 PM UTC

esperent wrote: post #239

moffkalast wrote: post #202

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It seems pleasant at first, then you realize that 90% of comments on every post are cynical negativity and I'm not entirely sure if spending much time around here is a good thing because it'm starting to absorb it.

Yes, HN is a very cynical and negative place, and it's interesting how quickly I stop noticing that if I visit a few days in a row. But if I don't visit for a week and then come back, it's starkly obvious. It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?

Post by dionidium » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:42 PM UTC

roncesvalles wrote: post #284

aw1621107 wrote: post #172

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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…

I mean it's also worth noting that spez was CEO of Reddit and subreddits like that were allowed to exist for many, many more years.

Post by CGamesPlay » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

brookst wrote: post #156

chunk_waffle wrote: post #86

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There's lies, damn lies, and status pages.

Status pages are the worst of all things to work on. 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 rea…

Post by SkyMarshal » Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

nullityrofl wrote: post #311

SkyMarshal wrote: post #303

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I use reddit daily, am constantly refreshing certain subreddits. Fwiw I use new reddit but I have all fancy settings disabled so it looks and works like old.reddit. I also use the iOS app daily. I’m also on the US West coast fwiw. And no reddit premium or anything like that. I literally never have outages or “You broke reddit” or stuff like that. Edit: I wonder if it’s because all the subreddits I’m on are low or med…

Yeah, I'm also US West Coast and I only ever use old.reddit or BaconReader. The Reddit Status Twitter and number of people responding to you confirm this isn't an isolated incident, though.