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Now the Reddit website is down. Is this related?

by gvhst 6y ago

anm89 6y ago
Woah, reddit, is indeed timing out for me as well.
fleshdaddy 6y ago
It must be. Wall Street bets grew to 8 million users after this whole GameStop thing, up from 1 million. They all probably hopped on to see what’s going on. Plus reddit is down more than any other website that popular that I know of.
Jugglerofworlds 6y ago
Ironically old.reddit.com is working fine.
- SilasX 6y ago
  Still waiting for one sense in which the redesign is better for the user.
  - slig 6y ago
    Has there been any case where a redesign of an app or website is actually better than the older version?
    - mook 6y ago
      People generally seemed to like Windows 3.11 → Windows 95 I guess? Also Mozilla Suite → Firefox (though some people still prefer the old way). It's just that when things are actually improved people tend to not remember them.
  - koolba 6y ago
    The new site is much better because it’s so slow and user hostile you stop browsing Reddit entirely.
  - postalrat 6y ago
    It's better for advertisers.
- imron 6y ago
  Not ironic. Old.Reddit has always been fine.
wongarsu 6y ago
old.reddit.com works. Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. Reddit being overwhelmed for a couple minutes seems like a daily occurance since forever, but wsb is really pushing their capacity at times.
- thinkingemote 6y ago
  > Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. There's only 300K people reading that subreddit at the moment. During the peak earlier in the month it was over a million. (edits, refreshed 4 mins later and it's just under 500K). Also, for the conspiracy fans, notice that the majority of the rise (90 -> 199) has happened / is happening during post market hours when normal users (retail) cant do anything. 50->90 happened during normal trading hours.
- ericbarrett 6y ago
  My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
  - doublerabbit 6y ago
    Their webapp isn't exactly the greatest creation too, I feel sorry for the poor little servers that run that site.
clarifier123 6y ago
That's unlikely, reddit is down all the time. They definitely have the worst uptime of all the major websites.
cdiamand 6y ago
I tried to determine this. And while I'm skeptical they brought the site down, there WAS a large uptick in comments on /r/wallstreetbets as the site went down. Still pulling in all the data from right before it went down. https://topstonks.com/blog/reddit-down https://topstonks.com/blog/reddit-down
Jimmc414 6y ago
Yes. https://t.me/wallstreetbets https://t.me/wallstreetbets
- Graffur 6y ago
  Is there a web version of telegram?
  - plyptepe 6y ago
    https://web.telegram.org/ https://web.telegram.org/

Now the Reddit website is down. Is this related?

by gvhst 6y ago

Now the Reddit website is down. Is this related?

anm89 6y ago

Woah, reddit, is indeed timing out for me as well.

fleshdaddy 6y ago

It must be. Wall Street bets grew to 8 million users after this whole GameStop thing, up from 1 million. They all probably hopped on to see what’s going on. Plus reddit is down more than any other website that popular that I know of.

Jugglerofworlds 6y ago

Ironically old.reddit.com is working fine.

SilasX 6y ago
Still waiting for one sense in which the redesign is better for the user.
- slig 6y ago
  Has there been any case where a redesign of an app or website is actually better than the older version?
  - mook 6y ago
    People generally seemed to like Windows 3.11 → Windows 95 I guess? Also Mozilla Suite → Firefox (though some people still prefer the old way). It's just that when things are actually improved people tend to not remember them.
- koolba 6y ago
  The new site is much better because it’s so slow and user hostile you stop browsing Reddit entirely.
- postalrat 6y ago
  It's better for advertisers.
imron 6y ago
Not ironic. Old.Reddit has always been fine.

wongarsu 6y ago

old.reddit.com works. Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. Reddit being overwhelmed for a couple minutes seems like a daily occurance since forever, but wsb is really pushing their capacity at times.

thinkingemote 6y ago
> Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. There's only 300K people reading that subreddit at the moment. During the peak earlier in the month it was over a million. (edits, refreshed 4 mins later and it's just under 500K). Also, for the conspiracy fans, notice that the majority of the rise (90 -> 199) has happened / is happening during post market hours when normal users (retail) cant do anything. 50->90 happened during normal trading hours.
ericbarrett 6y ago
My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
- doublerabbit 6y ago
  Their webapp isn't exactly the greatest creation too, I feel sorry for the poor little servers that run that site.

clarifier123 6y ago

That's unlikely, reddit is down all the time. They definitely have the worst uptime of all the major websites.

cdiamand 6y ago

I tried to determine this. And while I'm skeptical they brought the site down, there WAS a large uptick in comments on /r/wallstreetbets as the site went down. Still pulling in all the data from right before it went down. https://topstonks.com/blog/reddit-down https://topstonks.com/blog/reddit-down

Jimmc414 6y ago

Yes. https://t.me/wallstreetbets https://t.me/wallstreetbets

Graffur 6y ago
Is there a web version of telegram?
- plyptepe 6y ago
  https://web.telegram.org/ https://web.telegram.org/