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Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments.
With reddit it’s a common interface to every topic I’m interested in. I’m subscribed to about 60 subreddits now, from off grid cabins to deep learning to Spacex.
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According to [], they had $119M revenue in 2019. That's about $14k/h. [] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...
My first exposure to empty set citations
Anyone willing to put a price on 1 hour and 14 minutes of Reddit downtime? I would guess this cost less than a $1,000,000 USD but more than $100,000.
According to [], they had $119M revenue in 2019. That's about $14k/h. [] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...
I gave it some thought. I’ve distilled the reddit value proposition for me at least. Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments. With reddit it’s a common interface to every topic I’m interested in. I’m subscribed to about 60 subreddits now, from off grid cabins to deep learning to Spacex.
I personally maintain three - A professional one mainly used on technology forums, another for politics only and then a final one for... Other stuff.
I know lots of people who do similar.
Does anyone know why Reddit seems to be alone among the world’s most popular sites in having so many outages and frequent periods of slowness? I’ve been on it for more than a decade and its unreliability has been fairly constant. Is the engineering team more resource constrained than others or held back by unusual amounts of legacy code, or is it simply confirmation bias resulting from earlier experiences?
From AMA (ask [Reddit sysadmins] anything) announcement 2019/09/19 https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ver7h/14nov_redd... "I can answer this! According to various sources (mainly, complaints on the redesign subreddit), the new.reddit interface is a lot less tolerant of timeouts and delays. Old.reddit was much more relaxed and would wait longer before throwing up errors (like logouts and such), but new.reddit…
Anecdotal, but old.reddit.com (besides search) seems to always work during these outages. I'm guessing they're always knocking out the AJAX and search machines for some reason
>besides search Surely you're not attempting to imply that the search on old reddit worked in the first place?
Reddit is hosted on AWS. Are they using Fastly as their CDN because it's cheaper than AWS CloudFront CDN?
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From AMA (ask [Reddit sysadmins] anything) announcement 2019/09/19 https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ver7h/14nov_redd... "I can answer this! According to various sources (mainly, complaints on the redesign subreddit), the new.reddit interface is a lot less tolerant of timeouts and delays. Old.reddit was much more relaxed and would wait longer before throwing up errors (like logouts and such), but new.reddit…
"Responsive" is not a word that comes to mind when thinking about reddit's new interface.
Compare Old reddit and New reddit by shrinking your browser window in the x-axis on desktop.
Does anyone know why Reddit seems to be alone among the world’s most popular sites in having so many outages and frequent periods of slowness? I’ve been on it for more than a decade and its unreliability has been fairly constant. Is the engineering team more resource constrained than others or held back by unusual amounts of legacy code, or is it simply confirmation bias resulting from earlier experiences?
Outages are definitely less common than they used to be. But I would guess that reddit is one of the most popular sites on the internet because it's basically like an anonymous(ish) facebook with content guaranteed to be popular with the majority (by design). They've also made major efforts to keep the site socially sane for the majority of users (for better or worse, IMO generally better) with their moderation model…
Niche specific forums are better at everything niche communities want/need in a discussion space except bringing on new users. Considering the kinds of users you get when you're in close proximity to a colossus of internet riff-raff I don't think this is a big tradeoff.