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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by nullfield »

nullityrofl wrote: post #272
29083011397778 wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well, BaconReader is likely dead at the end of the month with their API changes (along with Apollo, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, etc.)

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by jerjerjer »

ryanstorm wrote: post #251
bbbobbb wrote: post #217

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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.

Users can't read error messages anyway.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Merad »

atchoo wrote: post #198
SkyMarshal wrote: post #142

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

It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN". Maybe it is a regional thing?

Eastern US here. I will get those errors a few times a week but I'd say 80% of the time it works on a refresh and most of the rest of the time it's back within 30s.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by VHRanger »

cente wrote: post #191
LordOmlette wrote: post #12

It is likely related to the blackout due to the reddit CEO being dishonest about the upcoming API pricing changes. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1476fkn/reddit_bl... Er, you will be able to read more at that link whenever reddit comes back online :-/

No? Making some subs private doesn't have anything to do with the site blackout.

We don't know anything about reddit's backend architecture. It might mess up their load handling, or raise other errors.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by babypuncher »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #142
paxys wrote: post #17

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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.

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

It's still weekly, the outages just don't last as long.

Source: I'm finally breaking a 13 year Reddit addiction.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by static_motion »

fullspectrumdev wrote: post #283
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.

I see outages browsing Reddit almost daily - either the “can’t reach cdn” error or the generic “you broke it” error. I always just assume the uptimes absolute dogshit.

I see those every now and again but it's usually a one-off, it'll load properly after a refresh. This time it was down or extremely slow for 10-15 minutes which is definitely uncommon.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by somuchjob »

Croftengea wrote: post #225
tsunamifury wrote: post #84

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place. Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

Reddit is still a vast archive of valuable advice on many topics. I developed a habit of adding "reddit" to my search requests whenever I want to get unbiased user opinions or product recommendations. For me, today is not only the day when the most of reddit is down but also web search experience is significantly degraded.

I do the opposite. Finding reddit links in a search result page just lets me know I'm in for a world of disappointment in modal pop-ups (on mobile), modal blockers to see the full comment thread, and then unhelpful/missing/flippant and generally unhelpful comments at the end of all that anyway.

Especially when I search for vehicle/mechanic advice the old school forums just can't be beat for their value, even though many are ghost ships with no active users anymore.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by roncesvalles »

dionidium wrote: post #315
roncesvalles wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by abluecloud »

Algent wrote: post #229
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

I wouldn't be surprised if so many big subreddits being dark is causing issues around denied API calls. As for the forced reopening, beside the conspiracy this is something that could happen. It's a private company, moderator on strike are a loss of business, they would be 100% in their right to remove all the "traitors" (I'm not saying this would be a smart move, simply that if they really plan to go down this self…

where the hell are they going to fine thousands of willing users to become mods of thousands of communities, overnight?
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