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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.

I can't imagine the DB load of hundreds of thousands of people deleting all their comments. https://shreddit.com/

It's very likely that a deletion at reddit is just setting "is_deleted" to true in a row, not actually a proper DB removal.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#372

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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?

I thought part of the reason the US is so blessed with a thriving startup community is the light-touch the law has towards its startups. For example; didn't the billion dollar acquisition YouTube gain a lot of its initial growth through copyright infringement?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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There is something to be said about a site that gets 100% of it's content from it's users without payment, 99% of it's moderation from it's users without payment. Turning around and trying to charge those same users for a different view of that data.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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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.

I agree, I really long for the days of simple "there was an error" messages. This trend of "you bwoke us" or "OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!" messages is infuriating to me even more than a simple error.

Reddit error pages are not following any kind of trend. They’ve been like that since for ever. No reason to get upset.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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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

What is /. ?

Slash dot

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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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.

I see stuff like that all the time. It feels pretty common to me.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#378

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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

What is /. ?

slashdot.org

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#379

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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

What is /. ?

Slashdot

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

#380

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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 don’t know how I’d ever get an invite to that.
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