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Major Outage on Reddit
- lax0 5y agoAlways
- mdoms 5y agoDoes anyone know what technologies are used in the backend at Reddit? Not that their frequent outages are the result of language or framework choices - that's just plain old developer incompetence - but I wonder if they have chosen some technologies that are beyond the capabilities of the types of chowderheads who would work at a place like Reddit.
- duncan-donuts 5y agoThey were source available for like a decade and their tech stack is a fairly open book from what I recall.
- midev 5y ago> that's just plain old developer incompetence People who make flippant comments like this have most certainly never worked at high scale sites. If you had, you'd appreciate the challenges when you're one of the biggest sites on the Internet.
- edgyquant 5y agoWhile this is true, Reddit is definitely the worst of the big sites when it comes to useability.
- Stratoscope 5y agoNot even close. Nextdoor is way ahead of Reddit in the unusability wars. At least Reddit still offers https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com.
- edgyquant 5y agoI've never even heard of nextdoor, and it's ranked way below reddit in terms of most visited sites https://www.similarweb.com/website/nextdoor.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/nextdoor.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/ https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/
- Stratoscope 5y agoOf course I could say I've never heard of similarweb.com. But let's not quibble over which site is bigger. Trust me, you ain't seen bad until you've seen Nextdoor.
- edgyquant 5y agoThat would be irrelevant since I never claimed similarweb to be a website comparable in traffic and scale to Reddit. We are discussing how Reddit is the worst implementation of one of the top websites on the planet. I never said there weren’t worse websites but show me one with Reddit like traffic that is worse.
- mdoms 5y agoI have worked on very high scale sites including ones that get shit on regularly on hacker news - Jira Cloud. I don't care where you work, there's no excuse for the amount of downtime reddit experiences. It's incompetence, and I don't care if you think I'm being a big meany.
- sithlord 5y agosounds like something someone would write after they finished their bootcamp capstone project and thinks they could make anything.
- edgyquant 5y agoI don't agree with the GP tone but you're kidding if you've used Reddit recently and don't think its hot garbage. There is a notorious login redirect bug that has existed for years. When you can't even get the login right you know there are tons of other issues. Upvoting doesn't work without error a percentage of the time, 'load more comments' on profiles has almost never worked. The list goes on.
- sriram_malhar 5y agoIn the 14 years of using reddit (unfortunately obsessively), I have rarely experienced downtime. From redditstatus.com I see that there have been no failures for the previous 90 days, except for yesterday. I'm wondering what has been your experience with the site. And, on what basis are you being so extraordinarily dismissive of their technical capabilities? I have engineered many large-scale systems in my life (not at reddit scale), and I know that it takes some serious engineering and operational smarts to keep such a system alive.
- stuck_in_the_ma 5y agoWhen you run websites / APIs, nobody remembers the months of time stretch while your site was up -- they just remember the hour of downtime when you go down. My site only handles ~ 350 million requests a month but even at that small scale, it's very tough.
- sriram_malhar 5y agoRight, but the GP seemed to indicate that reddit outages are a common enough occurrence i their experience to declare them chowderheads, and I was skeptical about the stated downtime. Neither my experience nor reddit's own stats corroborate what they are saying.
- quickthrower2 5y agoNews is if this doesn’t happen in a month
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- joshxyz 5y agothank god it stopped me from mindlessly scrolling.. yet here i am on hn, lol.
- cntrl 5y agoWanted to cut down my reddit consumption anyways... :|
- surajs 5y agoyeah, me too, harder to quit than twitter
- mountainriver 5y agoI quit, haven’t looked back
- travoc 5y agoIt’s back up, but it still uses the dark pattern of forcing you to register after you scroll past a few comments, unless you’re using the old interface or an unofficial app.
- hinkley 5y agoI’ve noticed a lot of links breaking in the “old” ui lately, where clicking on the picture on a post takes you to the subreddit instead of the thread. I don’t know if this is just a bug or the beginning of the end.
- travoc 5y agoI’ve noticed the same behavior.
- adrr 5y agoSo many dark patterns on reddit. Like trying to get you to use the app when you're on a tablet or mobile device. Or switching to the new interface when you click on a google search result that points at reddit.
- cmclaughlin 5y agoI’m guessing they also purposely broke the back button on mobile browsers so people get fed up and install their app. It’s unfathomable how they got that wrong.
- x3n0ph3n3 5y agoI wonder if this had something to do with the quarantine of NNN.
- tayo42 5y agoI was surprised to learn that there are only 23 sre at reddit. The site receives more traffic than Twitter. Less than 1000 employees. Seems severely understaffed? Or other companies are extremely bloated lol
- robertwt7 5y agoReddit is so addictive honestly.. Well time to rest and get to work :/
- flenserboy 5y agoUSENET, but worse.
- villgax 5y agoLol, I read that as - 'Major outrage on Reddit' & went 'huh, nothing new'