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Reddit Outage

72 points by ra7 5y ago

kdmdmdmmdmd 5y ago
Holy shit right it is Don guys this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen oh my God read it read it down ready to get rid of it down really does sound guys guys guys guys guys guys guys heard it is down holy shit is it is the Internet is going down the economy is collapsing and and and and and and and Trump is going to be president again in 2024 and the vaccine is leaky he doesn’t actually start Covid!
coreyisthename 5y ago
Prepare yourselves for thousands of uninspired "me when reddit was down" memes.
- spamalot159 5y ago
  Brace yourself...
kingTug 5y ago
What am I suppose to do all day? Work??
- commandlinefan 5y ago
  Not at all, HN is still up.
- sidpatil 5y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk673M5BoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk673M5BoA
  - mssundaram 5y ago
    Perhaps you meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ?
- SimeVidas 5y ago
  Watch amateur documentaries about obscure topics on YouTube.
  - thatguy0900 5y ago
    But https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ was also down
- squeaky-clean 5y ago
  I wonder if the other time wasting sites get a noticeable uptick in traffic when one has an outage.
minimaxir 5y ago
Likely related to Dogecoin's rise (Reddit also had a bad outage during GME's rise.)
- Dracophoenix 5y ago
  More like Star Wars day.
- wcchandler 5y ago
  I don’t think it’s just Dogecoin. Superstonk was speculating on some stuff happening today in the markets. Not sure on the details unfortunately.
- creamyhorror 5y ago
  I suspect so, too. Crypto and dogecoin in particular is going crazy, driving masses of comments. And tech stocks (and much of the market) are having another terrible day. Well, I guess it's back to Digg for us! Or maybe Google+?
  - mdoms 5y ago
    Digg is actually very good nowadays. It turns out that hand curated content is just superior to a soup of low effort user generated garbage and AI curated click bait.
    - kossTKR 5y ago
      Thanks for the digg tip, haven't visited in years, looks good. Reddit still has great subreddits but it's so much harder to sift through the garbage these days. Does anyone else thing there is space in the market for a place between hand curated content / aggregators? For me it seems like people are really wanting more curation, especially because of the ever increasing torrent of low quality content. Some kind of curation platform? It's like we went too far on the spectrum away from flow-TV towards "too much clicking and choosing", not sure if this is the case for younger demographics though.
spijdar 5y ago
Interesting, this seems different than other reddit outages I remember. Many of those seemed to only effect the app or the new interface but old.reddit.com continued to work. This seems to be everything offline, and it's already getting close to an hour totally down.
- alternatetwo 5y ago
  There was a similar outage a few weeks ago, where nothing worked either and it also took a "long" time to get everything back up and running. I never did check up what happened there.
- rcfaj7obqrkayhn 5y ago
  on old.reddit.com without signing in, the front page is loading for me: https://old.reddit.com/ https://old.reddit.com/
- dekerta 5y ago
  https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ still works. It's astonishing how much faster it is than the 'modern' version of Reddit also
  - pixxel 5y ago
    Also https://teddit.net https://teddit.net Super fast. No JS. Optional host yourself.
electrondood 5y ago
...plunging the world into productivity.
RosanaAnaDana 5y ago
And nothing of value that day was lost..
phoe-krk 5y ago
That's what you get for rewriting it away from Common Lisp. /s
- goalieca 5y ago
  That new interface sucking resources..
deleted 5y ago
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hprotagonist 5y ago
newyorker was offline for a bit too; something up at conde nast?
murat124 5y ago
Let me guess. Cassandra crapped.
- kinghajj 5y ago
  Should have used Scylla.
EarlKing 5y ago
Oh no! Where will people post all their memes stolen from 4chan now?
xyst 5y ago
this is what happens when you let the intern deploy to production
paganel 5y ago
And this happens just as ManCity vs PSG is about to start, what fun is a CL semi-final without the chance to check the live match-thread on /r/soccer every 2 minutes?
whalesalad 5y ago
downdetector is showing a big spike across a large number of services at about the same time. wonder what is up…
- can16358p 5y ago
  Just realized the same. Wonder which underlying provider went down.
  - bozhark 5y ago
    DDoS protection
MiddleEndian 5y ago
Misread that as "Reddit Outrage" and wondered how they could quantify that with a single metric.
creamyhorror 5y ago
Oh, Reddit's back!
Shadonototro 5y ago
reddit has the worst tech stack i ever seen, it's not even reliable shitty CDN for images during peak hours, shitty video player, shitty website for mobiles i wonder how it still is a popular website

72 points by ra7 5y ago

Holy shit right it is Don guys this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen oh my God read it read it down ready to get rid of it down really does sound guys guys guys guys guys guys guys heard it is down holy shit is it is the Internet is going down the economy is collapsing and and and and and and and Trump is going to be president again in 2024 and the vaccine is leaky he doesn’t actually start Covid!

coreyisthename 5y ago

Prepare yourselves for thousands of uninspired "me when reddit was down" memes.

spamalot159 5y ago
Brace yourself...

kingTug 5y ago

What am I suppose to do all day? Work??

commandlinefan 5y ago
Not at all, HN is still up.
sidpatil 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk673M5BoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmk673M5BoA
- mssundaram 5y ago
  Perhaps you meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ ?
SimeVidas 5y ago
Watch amateur documentaries about obscure topics on YouTube.
- thatguy0900 5y ago
  But https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/ was also down
squeaky-clean 5y ago
I wonder if the other time wasting sites get a noticeable uptick in traffic when one has an outage.

minimaxir 5y ago

Likely related to Dogecoin's rise (Reddit also had a bad outage during GME's rise.)

Dracophoenix 5y ago
More like Star Wars day.
wcchandler 5y ago
I don’t think it’s just Dogecoin. Superstonk was speculating on some stuff happening today in the markets. Not sure on the details unfortunately.
creamyhorror 5y ago
I suspect so, too. Crypto and dogecoin in particular is going crazy, driving masses of comments. And tech stocks (and much of the market) are having another terrible day. Well, I guess it's back to Digg for us! Or maybe Google+?
- mdoms 5y ago
  Digg is actually very good nowadays. It turns out that hand curated content is just superior to a soup of low effort user generated garbage and AI curated click bait.
  - kossTKR 5y ago
    Thanks for the digg tip, haven't visited in years, looks good. Reddit still has great subreddits but it's so much harder to sift through the garbage these days. Does anyone else thing there is space in the market for a place between hand curated content / aggregators? For me it seems like people are really wanting more curation, especially because of the ever increasing torrent of low quality content. Some kind of curation platform? It's like we went too far on the spectrum away from flow-TV towards "too much clicking and choosing", not sure if this is the case for younger demographics though.

spijdar 5y ago

Interesting, this seems different than other reddit outages I remember. Many of those seemed to only effect the app or the new interface but old.reddit.com continued to work. This seems to be everything offline, and it's already getting close to an hour totally down.

alternatetwo 5y ago
There was a similar outage a few weeks ago, where nothing worked either and it also took a "long" time to get everything back up and running. I never did check up what happened there.
rcfaj7obqrkayhn 5y ago
on old.reddit.com without signing in, the front page is loading for me: https://old.reddit.com/ https://old.reddit.com/
dekerta 5y ago
https://i.reddit.com/ https://i.reddit.com/ still works. It's astonishing how much faster it is than the 'modern' version of Reddit also
- pixxel 5y ago
  Also https://teddit.net https://teddit.net Super fast. No JS. Optional host yourself.

electrondood 5y ago

...plunging the world into productivity.

RosanaAnaDana 5y ago

And nothing of value that day was lost..

phoe-krk 5y ago

That's what you get for rewriting it away from Common Lisp. /s

goalieca 5y ago
That new interface sucking resources..

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

hprotagonist 5y ago

newyorker was offline for a bit too; something up at conde nast?

murat124 5y ago

Let me guess. Cassandra crapped.

kinghajj 5y ago
Should have used Scylla.

EarlKing 5y ago

Oh no! Where will people post all their memes stolen from 4chan now?

xyst 5y ago

this is what happens when you let the intern deploy to production

paganel 5y ago

And this happens just as ManCity vs PSG is about to start, what fun is a CL semi-final without the chance to check the live match-thread on /r/soccer every 2 minutes?

whalesalad 5y ago

downdetector is showing a big spike across a large number of services at about the same time. wonder what is up…

can16358p 5y ago
Just realized the same. Wonder which underlying provider went down.
- bozhark 5y ago
  DDoS protection

MiddleEndian 5y ago

Misread that as "Reddit Outrage" and wondered how they could quantify that with a single metric.

creamyhorror 5y ago

Oh, Reddit's back!

Shadonototro 5y ago

reddit has the worst tech stack i ever seen, it's not even reliable shitty CDN for images during peak hours, shitty video player, shitty website for mobiles i wonder how it still is a popular website