No other website of major size is as unreliable as reddit. In over 10 years of usage I've had noticeable facebook downtime only _once_. Meanwhile reddit seems have a major outage at least yearly and minor unavailability on an hourly basis. Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck. Are they incompetent?
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#22I 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.
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#23Since various tech layoffs I noticed major sites either being slower to browse or experiencing outages more often.
Is the down time caused because they laid-off the employees that kept the servers up, or is it caused by an influx of more users who find themselves with loads of free time.
Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build? Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months too.
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#25Looking at Downdetector it looks like Reddit and AWS started having problems simultaneously: https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.
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#26It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.
Little did we realise when we told GPT-4 to consume new training data, that it would take the command literally. Reddit was the first major site to go down...
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#27Since 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.
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#28I 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.
It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online than to sign up to another alternative social network.
It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to a lesser known platform with low discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a significantly weaker network effect.
It would have to take more than just outages to damage the network effect of these social networks. Hence why alternatives like Mastodon, didn't take off as many here thought.
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#30I 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.
I feel like Reddit is more read heavy and Twitter is more write heavy. If you're trying to read Reddit and it's down, you'll probably go read it some other time (/r/all doesn't change that frequently). If you're trying to tweet news or something, there is no way to do that when Twitter is down.