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I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I

I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.) I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

danielbln 7y ago
I don't know one way or the other, but I visit/use the site a lot (more than I should) and I rarely if ever see outages. For what it's worth.
- MichaelApproved 7y ago
  Do you use the actual site or do you use Reddit with an app? I think the actual site, Reddit.com, is the one with more outages.
  - dorfsmay 7y ago
    I agree with the parent poster (rarely any outage), but I use old.reddit.com.
    - danielbln 7y ago
      Yeah, I use old.reddit.com as well.
KennyFromIT 7y ago
> I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime. I think this possibly shows that they have a good understanding of what's most important to their users. If they were to ensure the application was highly available (think six 9s), then they would be sacrificing resources elsewhere in order to achieve this. They could recognize that an outage will not be a "life or death" event for their users and have decided the trade-off was worth it. Counterpoint: Or, they could just be lazy (or incapable) and haven't tried to solve for higher availability. This is not likely.
- dralley 7y ago
  If their time was instead spent on the redesign, it was completely wasted.
falcolas 7y ago
> I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages If they are like every other major company out there, status page reports are a function of a manager or PM judgement call, not the output of a monitoring system.