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I can't remember a major service nosediving so monumentally in such a short period of time. Just a steady degradation of service.

edgyquant 4y ago
At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
- nkozyra 4y ago
  > At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY I don't spend enough time on Reddit for that to really resonate, but the badges and icons flying all over the place and talk of Twitter Gold (or whatever they're calling it) do feel very Reddit-esque these days.
- Zetice 4y ago
  Reddit is fine? Not sure what this means…
  - sleepybrett 4y ago
    I mean, reddit certainly has more downtime that twitter, historically over the last say 5 years. At least once a week i'm met with the 'trippin' out snoo for a few minutes.
  - jurassicfoxy 4y ago
    Reddit crashes almost weekly it seems. Search is completely broken. The site's UI (new, not old.reddit) is truly atrocious.
    - bradwood 4y ago
      And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit.
      - flutas 4y ago
        > And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit. And stale. When they changed algos in ~2016(?) to try and stop certain subs I swear it got stale and feels like it updates on a cron job once a day anymore.
    - Maken 4y ago
      I hope they never remove "old" reddit.
    - bhaak 4y ago
      Reddit's search was never unbroken, though. So business as usual.
    - ModernMech 4y ago
      Search is and always has been broken on Reddit. I think it’s intentional, because nothing can be so bad for so long in accident.
    - Zetice 4y ago
      I’m in what is likely the top 1% of Reddit users by volume (I have a problem, send help), and I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. Further, as a dev of 15 years, I’m not even sure what you mean by “crash” here. Are you saying that Reddit serves exclusively 500s or timeouts for a sustained period of time on a weekly basis? Or that it serves more than zero 500s at some point during a given week? Or that you, personally, encounter an issue of any kind over a week? So many ways to describe “crashes” that yeah, by some definitions it probably does, but “can’t use the service” such as what Twitter is experiencing, I don’t think that’s accurate.
      - pictur 4y ago
        There is no need for such complex definitions. Reddit is a site that you will probably get an error on if you visit it several times a day.
        deely3 4y ago
        Thats quite strange, and definitely not my expirience. Maybe you have some issues with ISP?
        Zetice 4y ago
        That's my point; as someone who visits it many times a day, I do not get an error on the vast majority of those days.
      - not_a_shill 4y ago
        There is no way you haven't noticed reddit's servers getting overloaded. It happens fairly frequently and has for the last decade. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is_reddits_servers_getting_so_overloaded/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is... (See: all the people agreeing) One of the triggers used to be that if a thread got too many comments it would bring down the website. So sports communities had to start splitting up their game threads during massive events so Reddit wouldn't break. It definitely used to happen more often, but it was doing it for me yesterday coincidentally.
pixl97 4y ago
Things fail slower then faster than people expect. Lots of people were waiting with baited breath for Twitter to fail the first week Musk bought it, but most of the failure conditions had been automated away... Instead the reliability loss creep happened more slowly. The people that understood the edge conditions in the system were fired. Then new changes need implemented and the old, now not understood systems, were ripped out and new pieces put in. And lo and behold they have tons of failure conditions and edge cases that can knock out the system. Even if your programming team wrote immaculate documentation on all these edge conditions, it can take an immense amount of time to both read them, and then fully understand them, and when you have a micromanager breathing down your neck for changes 10 minutes ago this is what happens.

edgyquant 4y ago

At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY

nkozyra 4y ago
> At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY I don't spend enough time on Reddit for that to really resonate, but the badges and icons flying all over the place and talk of Twitter Gold (or whatever they're calling it) do feel very Reddit-esque these days.
Zetice 4y ago
Reddit is fine? Not sure what this means…
- sleepybrett 4y ago
  I mean, reddit certainly has more downtime that twitter, historically over the last say 5 years. At least once a week i'm met with the 'trippin' out snoo for a few minutes.
- jurassicfoxy 4y ago
  Reddit crashes almost weekly it seems. Search is completely broken. The site's UI (new, not old.reddit) is truly atrocious.
  - bradwood 4y ago
    And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit.
    - flutas 4y ago
      > And when it's not crashed it's slow as cold shit. And stale. When they changed algos in ~2016(?) to try and stop certain subs I swear it got stale and feels like it updates on a cron job once a day anymore.
  - Maken 4y ago
    I hope they never remove "old" reddit.
  - bhaak 4y ago
    Reddit's search was never unbroken, though. So business as usual.
  - ModernMech 4y ago
    Search is and always has been broken on Reddit. I think it’s intentional, because nothing can be so bad for so long in accident.
  - Zetice 4y ago
    I’m in what is likely the top 1% of Reddit users by volume (I have a problem, send help), and I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. Further, as a dev of 15 years, I’m not even sure what you mean by “crash” here. Are you saying that Reddit serves exclusively 500s or timeouts for a sustained period of time on a weekly basis? Or that it serves more than zero 500s at some point during a given week? Or that you, personally, encounter an issue of any kind over a week? So many ways to describe “crashes” that yeah, by some definitions it probably does, but “can’t use the service” such as what Twitter is experiencing, I don’t think that’s accurate.
    - pictur 4y ago
      There is no need for such complex definitions. Reddit is a site that you will probably get an error on if you visit it several times a day.
      - deely3 4y ago
        Thats quite strange, and definitely not my expirience. Maybe you have some issues with ISP?
      - Zetice 4y ago
        That's my point; as someone who visits it many times a day, I do not get an error on the vast majority of those days.
    - not_a_shill 4y ago
      There is no way you haven't noticed reddit's servers getting overloaded. It happens fairly frequently and has for the last decade. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is_reddits_servers_getting_so_overloaded/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is... (See: all the people agreeing) One of the triggers used to be that if a thread got too many comments it would bring down the website. So sports communities had to start splitting up their game threads during massive events so Reddit wouldn't break. It definitely used to happen more often, but it was doing it for me yesterday coincidentally.

pixl97 4y ago

Things fail slower then faster than people expect. Lots of people were waiting with baited breath for Twitter to fail the first week Musk bought it, but most of the failure conditions had been automated away... Instead the reliability loss creep happened more slowly. The people that understood the edge conditions in the system were fired. Then new changes need implemented and the old, now not understood systems, were ripped out and new pieces put in. And lo and behold they have tons of failure conditions and edge cases that can knock out the system. Even if your programming team wrote immaculate documentation on all these edge conditions, it can take an immense amount of time to both read them, and then fully understand them, and when you have a micromanager breathing down your neck for changes 10 minutes ago this is what happens.