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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by gl-prod »

kibwen wrote: post #180
tsunamifury wrote: post #84

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place. Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

I propose shutting down all social media on Wednesdays, indefinitely. (Sure, this idea is taken from Ready Player One, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea!)

It should be the law, 2 days without social media.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #355

More speculation but seems logical: traffic is a) much different in size and patterns than usual and b) being driven to areas that usually have much lower traffic, meaning caching and scaling are both being forced up against patterns of site usage that have never been tested or planned for.

Indeed it was https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by adra »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #601
bakuninsbart wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never worked at this scale, but could it also be that different subs are horizontally scaled and with so many people reverting to the subs that are still open the load is unevenly balanced?

Good question! And few people get to work at this scale, so it's not an unreasonable guess. I'll join you in speculating wildly about this, since, hey, it's kind of fun. IMHO sharding traffic by subreddit doesn't pass the smell-test, though. Different subreddits have very different traffic patterns, so the system would likely end up with hotspots continuously popping up, and it'd probably be toilsome to constantly ba…

For really really large sets, you'll still eventually want to reduce read compute costs by limiting specific tenants to specific shards in order to reduce request fan out for every single read request. If say I get a super quiet forum, would it make sense to query 2 shards or 6000? Clearly there's a loss of performance when all read requests have infinite fan out.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by dymk »

bamfly wrote: post #564
dymk wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. CP is a term used by 4chan and people unfamiliar with the topic. The detection, prevention, and enforcement community uses the term CSAM.

It's the only term I'd ever seen for it, in any context, until the last couple years. And I'm not a 4channer. Pretty sure it's just another euphemism-treadmill thing. (not that I mind in this case, I think the new term's fine, and certainly not worth fighting over)

Like I said, people are unfamiliar with the topic. In the industry, CSAM is the term used.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by RoyGBivCap »

comprev wrote: post #591
RoyGBivCap wrote: post #523

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you create the name for a website by trying to tell someone how to get to it over the phone? Doesn't the DNS entry have to exist first?

"Hey check out this website I discovered - it's called Slashdot" "It's called what!?" "Slashdot" "How do you spell that?" " http://slashdot.org " "Hang on, what? How many slashes and dots?"

So the conversation of what might happen occurred before the site was created?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by marcosdumay »

hn_go_brrrrr wrote: post #346
nicce wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An alternative conspiracy theory: put Reddit down for two days to hide the existence of the protests from major users. E.g. many Google searches lead into private communities now. Word is spreading.

"You can't take us down! We'll take _ourselves_ down, so there."

Honestly, looks as reasonable as anything else about this thing.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rvba »

Croftengea wrote: post #225
tsunamifury wrote: post #84

Reddit being gone for a while actually makes me feel like the world is a better place. Somehow knowing even for a brief moment no one is there and I’m not missing out on anything makes me feel… more alive and excited to interact with the world. sounds bizarre I know… but I wish more social media shut down now.

Reddit is still a vast archive of valuable advice on many topics. I developed a habit of adding "reddit" to my search requests whenever I want to get unbiased user opinions or product recommendations. For me, today is not only the day when the most of reddit is down but also web search experience is significantly degraded.

The problem is that now 'everyone' knows the reddit trick and marketers sit there all day writing sponsored posts + upvoting them with bots / bought accounts.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by bamfly »

dymk wrote: post #614
bamfly wrote: post #564

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the only term I'd ever seen for it, in any context, until the last couple years. And I'm not a 4channer. Pretty sure it's just another euphemism-treadmill thing. (not that I mind in this case, I think the new term's fine, and certainly not worth fighting over)

Like I said, people are unfamiliar with the topic. In the industry, CSAM is the term used.

What's "the industry"? The relatively new industry in moderating Internet communication? I've certainly only seen the term "CSAM" coming from cops and prosecutors very recently, and they're rarely shy about using their jargon in public communication.

[EDIT] I believe you that it's the term in vogue now, to be clear, but I'm skeptical it was as dominant, even if present, until relatively recently. If it was, then that entire world only recently started using it consistently in public communication, certainly. But, again, it's also fine, I don't mind the new term.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rvba »

zeruch wrote: post #599
ecommerceguy wrote: post #586

How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t... Reddit has always seemed to have gotten a pass when it comes to being a cesspool of fake accounts, what we would call bots today. I'm really hoping it fails, it's leadership team has always been amongst the worst of the tech companies.

I think you're being a bit overblown. If it was just bots, it would have fizzled out sooner; the bot account trash has waxed and waned over time, but I suspect the big reason it worked is that for years it allowed any subcommunity to emerge naturally rather than trying to predicatively shape it. And there are many worse examples of leadership in tech than Reddit. If anything until recently most of its C-suite histori…

The bots didnt disappear. They just got better and harder to spot.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by lsaferite »

ben7799 wrote: post #598
r0bbbo wrote: post #6

Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry

Wild. Probably 50% of the subs I subscribed to are gone, and some of the others have deleted all the content and locked posting to the sub. Others look like they got the hostile takeover and a new mod.

Could you point out some that appear to have had a hostile takeover? I'd love to check it out.
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