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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by jallen_dot_dev »

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

Wild guess: visiting a private sub requires an extra call to a service/db to check if the user can view it. Normally there are only a small number of these checks because private subs were usually small communities. Now, many large subs having switched private is causing some poor mircoservice somewhere to get hammered.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by UltimateEdge »

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.org

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by avgDev »

rthomas6 wrote: post #274
xattt wrote: post #159

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Eternal June for HN begins…

Nah, floods of new users have come before. The lack of images, politics, and drama, combined with the "boring" design drives the undesirables away, leaving behind people who like talking about tech and other interests.

HN will always retain some of the new comers. I was first reddit user then HN.

HN instantly brought me "old" internet nostalgia. Geeks just talking about things in a mostly open minded way. Lack of memes, politics and "boring" design will be all positives for some.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by avgDev »

moffkalast wrote: post #202
elegylegacy wrote: post #119

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That's literally why I'm here right now. I usually browse Reddit with my morning coffee, this has been a pleasant alternative

It seems pleasant at first, then you realize that 90% of comments on every post are cynical negativity and I'm not entirely sure if spending much time around here is a good thing because it'm starting to absorb it.

Idk once you experience enough world, it is quite hard not be cynical. I guess I fit right in.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by darknavi »

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.

From elsewhere in the thread:

> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by pr0zac »

nkohari wrote: post #398
comprev wrote: post #304

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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!)…

Isn't Slashdot a reference to the current directory in Linux?

I feel like no, trying it out (though on my Mac using zsh and not a 25 year old Linux box) the slash being first makes it reference the root directory.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Algent »

brightlancer wrote: post #423
Algent wrote: post #229

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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…

> It's a private company, moderator on strike are a loss of business, they would be 100% in their right to Legally, of course. Morally, it is completely unacceptable. This isn't "oh they're jerks"; this is "the system is broken". A meatspace analogy: You host a weekly gathering at a restaurant. You decide to temporarily boycott the restaurant to protest some behavior of theirs -- your actions are a loss of business,…

Oh I completely agree this would be the most stupid thing they could do. I wrote it because this is something I can picture happening at some point (I do expect the protest to multiply), you say they don't own the community but I'm pretty sure they think they can control it.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by post-it »

Timon3 wrote: post #220
cente wrote: post #191

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

How do you know? Someone else posited the theory that the frontpage service has to search for posts for too long due to the blackout. How do you prove this is not the case?

Can't prove it's not aliens.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by moffkalast »

yannyu wrote: post #309
esperent wrote: post #239

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Yes, HN is a very cynical and negative place, and it's interesting how quickly I stop noticing that if I visit a few days in a row. But if I don't visit for a week and then come back, it's starkly obvious. It's also not exclusively negative and cynical, of course, and there are some great insights to be found here. I think you're being unfair with 90%. Maybe more like 70%?

Is there any tech-oriented forum that isn't largely cynical and negative? Is there any social media that isn't largely cynical and negative? I also notice how my mindset changes when I don't visit, which really just makes me think I should stop engaging in 90% of online discourse and discussion.

Feels like reddit is at least has a larger percentage of memes and shitposting so there's less overall negativity, but there's also less substance.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by ilyt »

Ajedi32 wrote: post #391
roncesvalles wrote: post #329

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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?

This is partly why I now prefer the term "free exchange of ideas" over "freedom of speech". I believe it more closely captures the essence of what makes free speech worth protecting, while also conveniently excluding stuff like this (among other things, like spam or antisocial behavior).

Well, it's freedom of speech, not freedom of pics
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