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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 /. ?
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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?
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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?
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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
If a multitude of bots are written immediately retry upon receiving an error without backing off, and are now stuck in loops of flooding the servers with requests, could the number of requests become a greater factor than the simplicity of the responses?
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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 /. ?
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Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?
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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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As others have said, it's Slashdot - which got it's name from trying to spell out the web address over the phone. Silly and confusing... h..t..t..p..colon..slash..slash..slashdot..dot..org When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!)…
My brother writes xkcd. In 2006 I was living at home while attending community college. At the time, his site was still hosted on the old HP desktop that used to sit in our family room and now sat in his old bedroom. One day I was playing in an unofficial Counter-Strike tournament when one of his comics (possibly "Pi Equals"[1]) got posted to either Slashdot or Boing Boing. My ping immediately went from probably ~25…
Checking the default list against the private list is usually an O(1) because none of them are on the private list. Now almost all of them are. It's going from O(1) to basically O(n^2) worst case. For millions of users. I wonder why Reddit is down?
this doesn't make a lot of sense to me. do you have some archetectural insight, or just guessing? fetching a list of default/subscribed subs and comparing it against the whole list of private subs every time someone loads your homepage sounds like a pretty bad design. why wouldn't something as fundamental as a private/public flag be stored in the main db entry for the subreddit? either way, this doesn't seem like a p…
If that is the case, then generating the home page for a user is going to be hitting a lot of posts from private subs which have to be skipped over until enough accessible posts are reached to fill the page. And in the case of the official app, infinite scrolling is going to lead to constant pressure to generate the list of posts.