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Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh »

22289d wrote: post #94
q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep No offense, but... you okay? How do you take care of your brain while doing something like that? It's hard for me to tear myself away fully from social media (behold this comment), but every time I do, I notice how my brain seems to just... work better.

If you were me, you may not consider yourself to be ok. To give a simple explanation: I'm an extreme loner. Reddit is my human connection. I've been doing it for many years. I don't like it or dislike it, it just is. I'm content. Thanks for your concern.

Yeah, that's fair. I've been indexing high on solitude for a while (especially post-pandemic) and am actively working on re-prioritizing that these days.

> I don't like it or dislike it, it just is.

Now that's a level of Zen I can aspire to. :)

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by 8note »

mikhmha wrote: post #27
denysonique wrote: post #5

Since various tech layoffs I noticed major sites either being slower to browse or experiencing outages more often.

I’ve actually noticed this as well. I’m not sure if it’s all in my head. All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the stops. I unfortunately can’t give any concrete examples of this.

Old.reddit.com still loads plenty fast.

Sites get slow as they need to make more round trips before showing useful stuff

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by WWLink »

slg wrote: post #78
next_xibalba wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has Twitter’s usage declined? I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data. I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.

Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes…

As someone that never really used twitter before, but deleted my account when the musk drama reminded me I had one... The only difference is now I hear more people complaining about twitter being down, features being broken, search being broken, number of likes/retweets being broken, etc... but those people still use twitter and still send me links to tweets that I don't bother to read.

Personally, I don't use twitter because I don't like it - and the recent changes make me dislike twitter even more than I did before. I wish more people would walk the walk when they talk the talk. Heheh.

I like reddit because it's like a very popular forum with subforums on gazillions of different topics, and there's a lot of stuff I enjoy on there because of that.

I don't understand how using reddit vs twitter is a political decision (in most use cases). They are completely different tools.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

swader999 wrote: post #107
SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #38

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Is there a service that matches my curated list of subjects as well as Reddit does?

I've found discord replaces some Reddit subs on my list now.

How do you consume it? I find it's like trying to read a chat log - very hard to seperate high quality signal from noise.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

yurishimo wrote: post #73
john-radio wrote: post #33

So, anyone want to talk about guitar pedals in here?

Really enjoying my Chase Bliss Gravitas :)

Ahh god, their gear is art. I haven't played in a long time, but just looking at their site makes me want to. It looks like a lot of care goes into their work.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by wil421 »

cwkoss wrote: post #13
mahathu wrote: post #7

It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.

How many months until the public recognizes that GPT-4 is more competent and trustworthy than many of their current political representatives?

It’s not but they both share the same hubris.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by slg »

lmm wrote: post #104
slg wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is a worse experience for me today than it was before Musk purchased the company. I don't need to even be aware of his antics for that to be true. Killing Tweetbot is the biggest issue for me. The official iOS app is awful so now I never check Twitter from my phone. Plus my timeline isn't as interesting because lots of people I follow simply stopped posting. Maybe they left due to Musk's antics, but it makes…

> It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them. I'm using the site more now. Japanese twitter feels a lot more natural and nicer than it did pre-Musk.

That's interesting. What has Twitter done recently to improve the experience of Japanese users?

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by SSLy »

deminature wrote: post #110
andrewinardeer wrote: post #93

> We've implemented our fix and are slowly allowing things to ramp back up. We're not yet out of the woods. How do you draw a banana? Asking for a friend. Posted 18 minutes ago. Mar 14, 2023 - 16:18 PDT https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp

Still dead as a doornail, despite misleadingly now being labelled as a 'partial outage'.

it just works on old.reddit.com
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