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Reddit being down is not news.

davidreiss666 15y ago
No. Not really. But we kind of miss it anyway.
jedberg 15y ago
That hurts. But you're right, we've had a lot of issues. I think the reason this is news is because it is a massive Amazon failure.
- Peroni 15y ago
  Reddit gets a lot of grief for stability issues but the fact is it is an immensely popular site that a huge number of people have a close affiliation to. A massive percentage of these people spend a significant portion of their day browsing Reddit, interacting with other redditors, etc. and for the site to be down for as long as it has is news, regardless of similar issues occuring in the past. The main reason this is news is because this is an Amazon issue but also because tens of thousands of people who frequent the site regularly are now aimlessly browsing the internet in the hopes of finding alternative lulz and in my case some of us are even getting work done. shudder
- mattdeboard 15y ago
  I can't imagine how frustrating the jobs of the Reddit admins must be.
  - jedberg 15y ago
    It's usually very rewarding. The awesome community is what keeps me doing it.
    - freakball 15y ago
      Awesome, I just figured out that you kept the votes tallied during the 'downtime'. What's interesting is how clearly good and bad submissions were dichotomized when nobody had anything else to vote on.
  - jasonlotito 15y ago
    Is admin supposed to be plural? I mean, do they really have multiple system admins now? I ask, only because I know people have been coming and going recently. Frankly, for the size of the site, they do really, really well for the limited resources they have.
    - mattdeboard 15y ago
      I meant admins in the more general purpose sense of administrators, people who are paid to maintain the system. But yeah I agree, quality:resources ratio is really really high.
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scorpion032 15y ago
You made Google App Engine managers cry once: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dziuba_google_app_engine/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dziuba_google_app_en... Anything coming up for amazon? If not for anything else, for pure entertainment value!

No. Not really. But we kind of miss it anyway.

That hurts. But you're right, we've had a lot of issues. I think the reason this is news is because it is a massive Amazon failure.

Peroni 15y ago
Reddit gets a lot of grief for stability issues but the fact is it is an immensely popular site that a huge number of people have a close affiliation to. A massive percentage of these people spend a significant portion of their day browsing Reddit, interacting with other redditors, etc. and for the site to be down for as long as it has is news, regardless of similar issues occuring in the past. The main reason this is news is because this is an Amazon issue but also because tens of thousands of people who frequent the site regularly are now aimlessly browsing the internet in the hopes of finding alternative lulz and in my case some of us are even getting work done. shudder
mattdeboard 15y ago
I can't imagine how frustrating the jobs of the Reddit admins must be.
- jedberg 15y ago
  It's usually very rewarding. The awesome community is what keeps me doing it.
  - freakball 15y ago
    Awesome, I just figured out that you kept the votes tallied during the 'downtime'. What's interesting is how clearly good and bad submissions were dichotomized when nobody had anything else to vote on.
- jasonlotito 15y ago
  Is admin supposed to be plural? I mean, do they really have multiple system admins now? I ask, only because I know people have been coming and going recently. Frankly, for the size of the site, they do really, really well for the limited resources they have.
  - mattdeboard 15y ago
    I meant admins in the more general purpose sense of administrators, people who are paid to maintain the system. But yeah I agree, quality:resources ratio is really really high.

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scorpion032 15y ago

You made Google App Engine managers cry once: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dziuba_google_app_engine/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dziuba_google_app_en... Anything coming up for amazon? If not for anything else, for pure entertainment value!