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Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't kn

Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's going on. A small reminder of what the world used to be like haha.

georgehotelling 7y ago
reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
  This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page. Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.
- misterprime 7y ago
  It's on purpose ever since the revolt against Ellen Pao. Was it sparked by firing Valerie, the AMA admin?
52-6F-62 7y ago
This gets pretty rowdy: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter https://downdetector.com/status/twitter
- jfk13 7y ago
  For a simpler view of things, there's also https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
  - zymhan 7y ago
    I do love that this site still exists years later. I still use it regularly. It only took me like three years to remember the name right the first time.
hi5eyes 7y ago
it got brought up as quick as it did here at least on r/twitter
jacobgreenleaf 7y ago
You could use the outages mailing list https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012527.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012527.h...

georgehotelling 7y ago

reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.

tgsovlerkhgsel 7y ago
This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page. Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.
misterprime 7y ago
It's on purpose ever since the revolt against Ellen Pao. Was it sparked by firing Valerie, the AMA admin?

52-6F-62 7y ago

This gets pretty rowdy: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter https://downdetector.com/status/twitter

jfk13 7y ago
For a simpler view of things, there's also https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
- zymhan 7y ago
  I do love that this site still exists years later. I still use it regularly. It only took me like three years to remember the name right the first time.

hi5eyes 7y ago

it got brought up as quick as it did here at least on r/twitter

jacobgreenleaf 7y ago

You could use the outages mailing list https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/outages https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012527.html https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2019-July/012527.h...