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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.

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.