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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by drak0n1c »

koprulusector wrote: post #199
mmastrac wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like what he's done one bit, nor him personally, but this is a really big stretch and not really the level of comment HN should strive for. EDIT: to clarify -- a big stretch to connect editing comments (which was well-known to have happened) with other actions.

This is something I’ve seen repeated on Reddit often. Virtually any meta thread on Reddit about Reddit will have several comments containing these allegations. I can’t imagine how much time someone might need to spend to dig through all the noise to get to the truth, but it rings of something that might have a kernel of truth, given the prevalence and uniformity of such accusations. In either case, it’s easily as spe…

>“Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” Huffman, who co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian in 2005, wrote.

He did not admit to it until evidence was compiled and hit the front page, and let it appear for part of the week to participants and onlookers as if there was massive internal strife.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by meghan_rain »

skhr0680 wrote: post #36
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

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

A meme? So was he or was he not?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by [deleted] »

chunk_waffle wrote: post #86
r721 wrote: post #33

There's a spike on Downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/ Nothing on redditstatus.com (yet?): https://www.redditstatus.com/ UPD Currently on redditstatus.com: >Reddit Failing to Load >Identified - We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. Jun 12, 2023 - 07:58 PDT

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

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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Croftengea »

gremlinsinc wrote: post #305
Croftengea wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

maybe try using phind.com, not exactly the same but LLM infused search can have similar results, since it was trained on a lot of Reddit data.

Thanks, I didn't know about it, will give it a shot.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by amyjess »

chunk_waffle wrote: post #86
r721 wrote: post #33

There's a spike on Downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/ Nothing on redditstatus.com (yet?): https://www.redditstatus.com/ UPD Currently on redditstatus.com: >Reddit Failing to Load >Identified - We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible. Jun 12, 2023 - 07:58 PDT

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

Twice within the last month, new comments just... stopped showing up for several hours. And it took at least an hour from when I first noticed it to when it got mentioned on their status page.

When I say "stopped showing up", I mean I could see my comments on my user page but they wouldn't show up on the thread (even for me), and I would get replies to older comments I made in my inbox but they wouldn't show up in the thread either. (Yes, only an hour or so before this happened I made a post that got a bunch of engagement, and I was actively responding to people who replied to me.)

I knew the mods weren't removing my comments because your removed comments still show up in the thread for you while you're logged in, and the mods weren't removing the comments of the people replying to me either because they would've disappeared from my inbox if that was the case. Ergo, outage.

And then it happened again like two weeks later.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by scubbo »

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.

I mean, define "endorsement". Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise is a mild form of endorsement. A commitment to free speech is, to an extent, an endorsement of all the speech that results.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by static_motion »

philote wrote: post #93
jonathantf2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it? I usually use Reddit on my lunch about this time every day and I can't remember the last time it was down.

I run into issues on occasion, usually with loading comments. I use the web interface. Interestingly, HN is being really slow for me right now and also gave an error when I first loaded it. Maybe something more global is going on, like network or cdn issues?

Same thing here, Western Europe on a 500Mbps connection. Maybe higher traffic from people looking for Reddit alternatives?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by SkyMarshal »

atchoo wrote: post #198
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.

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?

Might be, I’m US west coast fwiw.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by cmh89 »

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.

>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

That's nonsense. The Sears debacle showed that reddits leadership team was fine with deleting posts if it was going to cost them money to not delete them.

That 'political commitment to free speech' sure disappeared quickly when r/jailbait and u/violetacrez hit the main stream media.

spez was fine with hosting a community of child predators because it was one of the most popular subs. It was the top recommended result when you searched for reddit on google.

You can support free speech without actively providing a community for predators

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