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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

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.

Windows 95. "This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down"

"WTF AM I GOING TO JAIL?"

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by slashtab »

norrland4ever wrote: post #240
garciasn wrote: post #216

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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

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Post by sethhochberg »

iak8god wrote: post #345
garciasn wrote: post #216

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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

I'm boycotting reddit this week, and I will never use their app, but I just don't know where else to go for communities related to niche non-tech interests, and state & local stuff. I guess Facebook groups, but FB is practically unusable these days.

Just a few weeks ago I went through the exercise of closing my FB account because I was getting all of my local NYC discussion from subreddits, instead. Poor timing I guess.

If reddit bungles this whole thing, the loss of /r/asknyc will be truly tragic. Such a great way to crowdsource local recommendations without the extra veneer of tourist feedback on top.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by greenie_beans »

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.

same, tried to search about a specific topic and couldn't access the subreddit

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by DANmode »

mrgalaxy wrote: post #160
mmastrac wrote: post #129

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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.

Parent commenter shouldn't have said secretly. That was something he openly admitted to doing. https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...

It was secret/nontransparent until he admitted to it.

Still misleading, I agree.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by boneitis »

codetrotter wrote: post #375
flutas wrote: post #270

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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.

Following the trend, trend setting, been like that since for ever, or something else: name it what you will. Whatever it is, I'd certainly call out the presence of a (less than welcome, imo) trend.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by yreg »

29083011397778 wrote: post #252
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

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.

E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_brok...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

jerjerjer wrote: post #322
ryanstorm wrote: post #251

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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.

It depends on the type of user, even among the non-tech savvy.

A message as simple as "Sorry, reddit is receiving too much traffic right now and can't handle your request. Try loading this page later.", 99% of people will understand.

But there's that 1% of people that aren't just non-savvy, they're willfully non-savvy to the point where words stop having meaning to them just because they're referring to something related to a computer. The type where if you ask them something as simple as "Is the computer turned on?", they say they don't know. Meanwhile, the screen is showing their desktop.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by cmh89 »

nicolas_t wrote: post #354
cmh89 wrote: post #340

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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 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…

What was the Sears debacle?

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9clji/where_did_...

reddit used to be owned by Conde Nast. Sears got upset about a post and complained to Conde Nast, who then told spez to take it down. If you have a political commitment to 'free speech' that folds if you might have to face some consequences for defending it, you don't have that strong of a commitment in my opinion. Certainly not strong enough to justify hosting a community of child predators

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by bshipp »

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

I would think so. Bots are already rate-limited when accessing the API so it's hard to see how this has increased server load, unless there's something funky in the backend involving private/dark subreddits.
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