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Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by margorczynski »

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…

This anecdote is the answer to the lack of data that would support the user count decline of Twitter? I'm sorry to damage your ego but you're just a single data point and extrapolating how you see things to a non-quantifiable amount of other users isn't a reasonable argument.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by bnralt »

CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I 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'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

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by 22289d »

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh wrote: post #86
22289d wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> almost every evening you get error pages The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep - and I do not get error pages everyday. A few years ago, yes. Now they are pretty rare. Maybe once a week.

> 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.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by rozap »

codeTired wrote: post #51
john-radio wrote: post #33

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

No, but we can talk about modding my sim rig pedals to load cell.

Did this improve your times? I have a g29 and could do the mod or get upgraded everything. But, as with real racing I'm reluctant to spend the money to gain a few tenths when I could gain seconds by just sharpening my skills.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by hot_gril »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #38
rvz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 si…

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

Not one that's widely used. I made something small where you only see links reposted by friends, so you can get stuff from all over the place, but only if it's filtered through a friend. Which is even more granular than Reddit's curation and also obviates the need for community moderators.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by input_sh »

next_xibalba wrote: post #50
myspy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter not the reliability.

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.

> Has Twitter’s usage declined?

Literally nobody outside of Twitter knows. As it's no longer a public company, they're under no obligation to share any metrics.

My guess would be it increased until the end of 2022 (people were interested in how it's gonna turn out and more importantly World Cup was happening), but I'd be shocked if the usage didn't drop dramatically as 2023 rolled in.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by kredd »

bnralt wrote: post #92
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #22

I 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'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.

Re: Reddit is currently down

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Post by kredd »

ortusdux wrote: post #48
sorenjan wrote: post #12

Looking 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/

According to reddit, it is an internal issue: https://www.redditstatus.com/

My guess is cascading effect of failures (slower delivery of messages, some internal connection issues, probably degraded database and etc.) that caused a bigger problem that they're trying to fix. That, or DNS.
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