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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by r721 »

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

>Monitoring - We're observing improvements across the site and expect issue to recover for most users. We will continue to closely monitor the situation.

>Jun 12, 2023 - 08:47 PDT

https://www.redditstatus.com/

>"A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue," Reddit told Engadget in a statement.

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-suffers-a-major-outage-after...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by aeyes »

archon wrote: post #130

Pure speculation: With so many subs now private, they're hitting a performance wall searching for enough content to fill the front page. If I'm logged in and go to the site root, it throws an error. If logged out, it works. If I go to a specific (not privatized) sub, it works.

Rule number one for high traffic sites with a lot of pageloads coming from search engines: Aggressively cache content shown to unauthenticated users. Since they don't really interact with the site, they probably won't even notice if it's a bit stale.

They used to have a really good blog post about their caching infra which for some reason was deleted. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210205121832/https://redditblo...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by nanidin »

capableweb wrote: post #371
briffle wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

correct, if you do the data export for your account you get all of the deleted comments/submissions in the resulting zip.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Timon3 »

post-it wrote: post #458
Timon3 wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Another sibling comment was added 2 minutes ago, where Reddit themselves state that the blackout is the cause:

> 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.

Maybe you should think a bit harder about the difference between "this thing that is actively happening could be the cause" and "aliens could be the cause"?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by yosito »

lazycouchpotato wrote: post #384
cente wrote: post #191

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

Deimos, former Reddit admin and creator of tildes.net currently thinks they're related: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri... EDIT: Reddit themselves confirmed that the outage was related to subs going private. > “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” said Reddit spokesperson T…

How does one get a user account on Tildes?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by sureglymop »

shanefromfargo wrote: post #94
WillPostForFood wrote: post #18

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Or all the ppl missing Reddit are on HN to fill the need.

What's up guys!? That's me. Really enjoying my time on HN so far. It reminds of what Reddit used to be like.

Let's hope this place doesn't get overrun...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by absoflutely »

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 TheNewsIsHere »

mjr00 wrote: post #207
mort96 wrote: post #113

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What surprises me is that he's not ousted by the board yet. Surely at this point he's causing more trouble than he's worth?

Part of spez's job is to be the lightning rod for controversial decisions. The board I'm sure is pushing for the same things (increases in pricing, driving users to the official app) in order to boost metrics before the IPO. Aside from the somewhat pointless AMA where his frustrations came out a bit too much, if you assume that the effective removal of API access had to happen, what do you think he's done wrong durin…

Many take exception to his handling of Reddit’s relationship with Apollo and Christian Selig specifically.

Steve Huffman has reportedly told employees that Selig threatened Reddit. Selig posted a (perfectly legally recorded and disclosed) call recording showing the alleged “threat” was a misunderstanding over which the Reddit employee on the call apologized immediately.

Huffman serves in an official capacity at the Anti-Defamation League. People are (rightly, I think) critical of his handling partly in light of that.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by [deleted] »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by ilyt »

flutas wrote: post #404
paxys wrote: post #17

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Pointless speculation. Reddit has constant outages of this exact nature almost weekly. There's nothing special about this one.

Reddit 100% has stated that it was because of the sub blackout. > 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/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...

Them "anticipating" "expected" issues with... people visiting reddit less sounds a bit weird...
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