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Reddit Is Down
- ck2 5y agoIf I had to guess maybe finally banning that anti-vax/mask sub made someone do a ddos? (they were "brigading" other subs) or maybe something more basic https://www.redditstatus.com/ https://www.redditstatus.com/
- dinero_rojo 5y agoIs a site the size of Reddit really susceptible to DDoS attacks? And do you really think anti-mask/vaxers would have the technical ability to do that?
- ck2 5y agoFor non-cached content, sure? All you have to do is exhaust enough database fetching and rendering on the backend for non-cached content and even amazon goes down (ie. black friday downtime). It would take an impressive amount of resources but who knows what blackhatters are selling these days.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoYou'd need to use logged in accounts to get uncached content, so wouldn't you be burning through a lot of accounts to do it? Seems like something you could only do once in awhile. Doesn't seem worth it for a simple quarantining of a sub.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoIt was quarantined not banned.
- m031 5y agohttps://www.redditstatus.com/ https://www.redditstatus.com/
- sio8ohPi 5y agoSo? Reddit is frequently down.
- yabones 5y agoVery frequently. Way more than should be acceptable for the 19th most visited site on the net.
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- GreenWatermelon 5y agoIt's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.
- cblconfederate 5y agoWe need to make a subreddit for this
- unityByFreedom 5y agoIs it mundane? It's been down for nearly an hour.
- quickthrower2 5y agoReddit is down a lot, it’s almost a injoke on Reddit.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoNot for an hour. This is unusual. Scrolling through their uptime history, it looks like this was the biggest incident in 3 years, perhaps longer, https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=14 https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=14 https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=16 https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=16 I looked through the whole thing back to 2011/09 and there was never more than a "6 component partial outage". Only a few "1 component major outage": https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=26 https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=26 The one just now was a "7 component major outage". Annoyingly, these links are going to be inaccurate in the future since they're paged from the present date.
- Valord 5y agoVery likely to see a post-mortem for the incident show up right here on HN :)
- Fricken 5y agoI suspect HN gets an influx of readers the instant Reddit goes down, one of them being me.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoCue the flood of “let’s hope it stays this way” comments.
- Passport4-Lurk 5y agoCan someone tell me how Reddit is down so much compared to other sites. It seems like it is down for an hour every other week.
- unityByFreedom 5y agoCompared to other social media sites, maybe because if there is flashpoint, everyone on the site can get funneled towards it? On Facebook or Twitter you wouldn't find everyone commenting on the same "thread". Does reddit do post mortems? If it did then we might have a clue.
- hamburgerwah 5y agoThey have never placed any value on engineering, have a founder leading the engineering effort who is a complete buffoon and pay 30-50% less than similar silicon valley enterprises. It's not really much of a mystery at all why they are down so much.
- elpakal 5y agooh no, i wont be able to infinitely scroll through cat pictures and r/wtf. much bigger fish maybe it’s a good thing
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoI usually go on Reddit to hear myself type about programming and politics. Now you people get to hear it
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- naikrovek 5y agoI am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this. If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life. If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it is down, the very nature of attempting to visit a site that is down will inform me that the site is down. Under no circumstances do I need, or want, a HN post, or a post on any other site, telling me of such a thing. Later in-depth analyses of what caused the outage are welcome, of course, because those contain information that I will not have already obtained on my own.
- aaomidi 5y agoAre you confused that why a people of a certain website (HN) have upvoted an article about another certain website that you don't have interest in? Half the content on this website is stuff that doesn't interest me, but that's the nature of crowd sourcing what interests people.