They must have moved whoever was in charge of the video player to head of devops...
Reddit is currently down
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Re: Reddit is currently down
#142I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will drive people off the site. Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.
Correct, reddit has been up and down pretty regularly and has had its own share of problems like the irritating web interface and the nagging to user their iOS/Android app. Twitter had a terrible time coping with growth in the 2010s and the "fail whale" became a bit of a meme, but that died down as they got a hold of how to handle hockey-stick growth. Suddenly we're seeing that a bit more frequently. Weird, that!
It's interesting how this line has shifted after the layoffs from:
1. actually it'll be fine, they had too many staff. nothing will change.
2. actually it's broken because Twitter "1.0" sucks, is brittle and is unsustainable. we need to throw out their garbage code.
3. actually it's ok to have downtime, it worked for the guys who have a less than a quarter of the active users we do [0][1] who also have a year-on-year decline in users!
I guess I'm gonna have to answer the "you just hate Twitter/Elon" thing - look I would've been happy if Twitter carried on as-is, even if Elon let his politically active pals back on the site again. But they dumped Tweetbot, I don't like Twitter's app, I found I liked Ivory + a bunch of people on Mastodon so :shrug: maybe Twitter isn't for me any more. No biggie.
[0] - 237 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily...
[1] - 50 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324264/reddit-daily-act...
Re: Reddit is currently down
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Well every subreddit is run by a small group of despots. So I would expect that's who they are talking about in a sense.
No, the 'admins' are people who work for reddit. 'Mods' are people who volunteer to work for reddit (the 'despots'). By the way, you should try modding a moderately large sub and see what you have to deal with. It is always easy to criticize until you are one having to do the work.
I don't think people make that distinction in their lived felt experience. Mods == Reddit.
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Trending topics have shifted. Allegedly they removed some manually-curated trending system that was previously in place, which may have been a system that worked well for some demographics but wasn't working great for Japan.
That is mildly surprising. I would have assumed a manual process would have done a better job of adapting to different languages and cultures than an automated process unless that manual work was done by people outside that cultural context.
I hear that they were manually pushing political tweets which I guess Japan doesn't hate engage with as much as people in the west do.
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It's interesting comparing the relatively calm discussion here to Reddit being down for hours (and still down as I type this) to the hyperbolic comments people were making about the death of Twitter when Twitter briefly had some issues the other day[1] (the site wasn't down but had some issues, and they were resolved in less than an hour). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043433
Reddit isn't really used as "defacto source of breaking news". I mean, local subreddits and other things stiff get prompt information, but it doesn't get as much wide coverage as Twitter.
Would the world care if HN died suddenly? Almost no one would even notice.
Reddit is really little different from HN; it's just bigger.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reddit isn't really used as "defacto source of breaking news". I mean, local subreddits and other things stiff get prompt information, but it doesn't get as much wide coverage as Twitter.
Well it was for a while. Then they got someone killed during the whole Boston thing. So you know, theres that..
Reddit was never on the level of Twitter in terms of real-time news relevancy. Tweets are broadcast on television and used as sources for news stories constantly.
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#147Related ongoing threads:
Reddit has been down for more than an hour - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145
Reddit Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157078
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That's true, I'm a fast reader and I am probably on lower volume boards than you might be thinking of.
When you come back after a day or two away do you start reading where you left off like a chat log?
For the topics that interest me I do. Some I just scroll a few new messages.
Re: Reddit is currently down
#149They must have moved whoever was in charge of the video player to head of devops...
Probably forming a infrastructure super team with the UX/design lead for the redesign as well, what can go wrong?
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What are your favorite subs?
sports subreddits. r/nba, r/nfl, my teams. my city subreddit r/chess + r/anarchychess (chess memes) crypto subreddits ya, those are the main ones. then all sorts of randoms. r/ProtonMail is a good random one.
Yeah I find local city subs pretty great.