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Reddit has been down for more than an hour
- modshatereality 4y ago[flagged]
- benburleson 4y agoLooks like you have a clear agenda, but your point is real. I hadn't thought much about it until recently. I posted something in a popular (and generally extremely positive) subreddit that was (unbeknownst to me) both divisive and posted recently. Rather than a simple message or warning to me, I got a message that I was "permanently banned" from the subreddit. The message said I could reply to that message to communicate with the moderators, and I did ask for reasoning behind the decision. I never got a response, but I was apparently un-banned. I have a feeling either the mod that banned me realized his knee-jerk reaction, or other mods realized that one mod is a loose cannon. Either way, the experience really changed my view of Reddit.
- pwthornton 4y ago[flagged]
- seydor 4y agoThe first victim of GPT4
- rvz 4y ago[flagged]
- nawgz 4y agoBeen pretty bad all day. Great for my productivity, they should mess up more.
- rcpt 4y agoThis is great I was in the middle of a pretty nasty argument and now it'll just stop
- zwieback 4y agoYou caused the shutdown!
- 01100011 4y agoIDK what it is about reddit that makes it easy to get sucked into an argument. When I'm twitter, I just speak my mind. If you don't like it, fine, I feel little compulsion to engage. If things get nasty, I just mute or block. I feel like I get the same amount of benefit out of each site, but twitter delivers it w/ less stress. Maybe it's just an artifact of how, on Twitter, I generally only follow 'experts' and interact w/ their followers vs the sorts of folks who camp on Reddit waiting to start arguments.
- rockostrich 4y ago> If you don't like it, fine, I feel little compulsion to engage. If things get nasty, I just mute or block. I do this on Reddit. If there's a back and forth and I feel like the person replying is not commenting in good faith then I'll just block them.
- millzlane 4y agoI just say "oh okay".
- TheCleric 4y agooh okay
- Consultant32452 4y agoMy favorite trope on Reddit is when you explain something clearly and people respond that you haven't given an example or explained or whatever. It's not that you haven't explained, they just don't accept your explanation and demand more. I've taken to increasingly absurd responses to this trope. I often explain with perverse metaphors involving their mothers. Highly recommend finding your own flavor of fun responses to this ludicrous bad faith response.
- MisterBastahrd 4y agoWell, okay, but when I clicked on the comments link, I was told that HN was down too.
- gniv 4y agoI too thought they were related, but apparently not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344
- CobrastanJorji 4y agoMastodon.social is down as well. Maybe all the bored Redditors went to see if Mastodon still existed? Or maybe one of the Clouds is having an outage?
- yabones 4y agoI believe there was a DDoS attack on .online & .social yesterday/early today, they may still be dealing with the aftermath.
- not2b 4y agoYou posted this six minutes before my post, but mastodon.social is up for me, and no mention of any downtime. If it isn't for you there may be network problems between you and the site.
- EFreethought 4y agoI got an account on masthead.social, and that has been down for a week. There is/was a thread about on Reddit, and half of the threads were someone saying, "Mastodon.social is fine, what's the problem?" and responses pointing out the post was about mastHEAD.social. Daily Kos is also down. Archive.is was spotty this past weekend. It seems like outages are becoming more common.
- e4e5 4y agoToday is just one of those tech news days. OpenAI, Facebook and a major outage of a popular website. Exciting times!
- ramesh31 4y ago>Exciting times! Beware the Ides of March...
- EwanG 4y agoElon didn't just buy Reddit by any chance... :-)
- itsmartapuntocm 4y agoGod I wish. Then I could wean myself off of there too.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoJust do it, you won't regret it. I was in your position in 2021 and genuinely found it difficult to stop using it. Now I don't use it and... I'm glad. Just like Twitter. Life really is better without them.
- Ekaros 4y agoOnly thing I'm annoyed is that old reddit isn't default for those rare occasions I need to visit it.
- c23gooey 4y agoAFAIK you can make it the default in your user settings. I haven't seen new reddit for a long time
- jmholla 4y agoThere's also an add-on at least for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... I don't like to stay logged into my account so I use this.
- 1270018080 4y agoReddit seemingly has more outages than any other social media company. What is going on in their infrastructure? It's been like this since I've been using it. It must be unfixable or leadership has their priorities way out of line.
- riffic 4y agocomplex systems are complicated to run? it's incredibly expensive to chase another 9 of availability so everyone who isn't the bell system has had outages from time to time.
- blahyawnblah 4y agoYeah, I'm not sure why they haven't been able to sort out their infrastructure issues. Nothing they do is rocket science. Especially these days. Probably concentrating on IPO and trying to keep the balance sheet tight.
- sofixa 4y agoEh, at their scale(one of the most visited websites across the world) everything is complex. It doesn't excuse their continuous failures in some aspects (e.g. video player still sucks, years later), but in general reliability is decent. Their engineering blog was quite enlightening, but I don't think they've posted in a while.
- dmonitor 4y agothe new layout is still pretty garbage compared to the old one and because of this, reddit has to maintain four different web front ends: new desktop, new mobile, old desktop (old.reddit.com), and old mobile (i.reddit.com). hosting their own image/videos so that 80% of the content isn’t dependent on third parties like imgur is probably a good change, but there’s no way it didn’t massively increase the complexity of maintaining the website too.
- sofixa 4y ago
- hbn 4y agoQuick, hire more UI designers!!!
- deely3 4y agoOops, wrong site!
- TrueGeek 4y agoDish Network has been down three weeks now...
- incahoots 4y agoWhoa shit, they’re still down? Last I saw all services were down, that still the case?
- TrueGeek 4y agoFrom what I can see (my in-laws use them) if you are signed in to apps that rely on their SSO then you are good. If you need to login or if your token need to refresh then you’re screwed. If you are just watching broadcast you’re also good. But we were trying to watch HGTV on Apple TV, got kicked out of an already logged in session, and now have no way to log back in. I can’t imagine they will have any choice but to issue at least some refunds if this goes much longer.
- tornadofart 4y ago[flagged]
- ZeKK14 4y agoWat ?
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- antibasilisk 4y agoi think he's talking about rape 'fantasy' subreddits and women using dogs for sex
- Avalaxy 4y agoPretty sure they banned both?
- tornadofart 4y agoSadly no. They banned specific threads / subreddits, not the content.
- l33t233372 4y agoI’ve never seen the latter 2 on reddit and I’ve been a user for many years.
- tornadofart 4y agoYou're also probably a decent human being and not searching for that kind of stuff. That does not mean it does not exist on reddit, sadly. Reddit as a company, however, is doing nothing against it, or not enough
- Vrondi 4y agoYou get out of Reddit what you put in or look for most of the time, and well, some people are apparently looking for the scum from the bottom of the Internet, so they find it.
- spike021 4y agoSurely unrelated but Disney finally decided to go after the MarvelStudiosSpoilers subreddit.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoThe best outcome for humanity at large would be if it never came back.
- kyleyeats 4y agoReddit is one of the few places where I have actually been able to help people. Twitter is like shouting into a void.
- NotYourLawyer 4y agoYeah, I’m maybe exaggerating slightly. Reddit is tolerable if you unsubscribe from the default subs. Still, on the whole… probably net negative.
- broken_symlink 4y agoYeah I dont understand why people are glad its down. I have an account specifically curated to my interests, where I unsubscribed from all the default subs and only subscribed to things I'm interested in. Theres a lot of great niche communities out there for my hobbies that I've found on reddit.
- thih9 4y agoIt's all subjective though and very much dependent on one's approach.
- thrillgore 4y agoI mean, yeah, if you get off the default subs, but at some point the dross makes its way into the rest of the steel, and you can only do so much filtering and babysitting.
- moffkalast 4y agoAnd Facebook is like the void shouting back at you.
- throwawaysalome 4y ago
- web3-is-a-scam 4y agoreddit is down, circleci is down, our own AWS infra seems to still be up across all regions (at least the ones we deploy to), jira and slack are working, downdetector reportings lots of outages all over...definitely a perplexing mass outage. HN - status page of the web (even if it is extremely slow right now, guessing it's getting hugged).
- moffkalast 4y agoSomeone's probably misconfigured another BGP yet again.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoI like how this is where most of the world's cloud tech experts hang out, and there's no "cloud" whatsoever. It's just some old crappy server in a room running custom software written by a venture capitalist in his spare time
- acover 4y agoOn a custom language
- c23gooey 4y agoHN is getting hugged by the holy trinity of major sites outages, major product launches and major tech layoffs. Any one of those is usually a fairly large event around here, all three at once is another story
- Euphorbium 4y agoI wish that we could all migrate to something new, just as swiftly as it happend with digg. It seemed like it took just days. Reddit is long overdue to die.
- moffkalast 4y agoYeah what if there was another site that was a bit more exclusive and promoted good faith discussion, maybe related to tech to begin with.. Hey wait a second!
- radicalcentrist 4y agoI really hope this site doesn't become the next reddit. I don't think a massive influx of new users would be healthy for good faith discussion here.
- poisonborz 4y agoBut imagine if there would be multiple topics, instead of a single bucket, that - beside some tech news and releases - defaults to the same old discussions.
- throwaway22839 4y agoIt would just be reddit (and reddit still has repetitive discussions)
- Klonoar 4y agoSarcasm aside, this site actively resists becoming Reddit in many respects. It's in no way a replacement.
- deely3 4y agoFor me HN is more similar to one moderated sub on a reddit, not a reddit as whole. You can find small moderated communities on a reddit where you can discuss any topics without "noise". Also you can find big popular communities similar in style to 4chan. And honestly I see nothing wrong with it.
- DrFell 4y agoQuick, someone post their JavaScript contraption as a service startup idea!
- monksy 4y agoNow time to post memes on hacker news (Dang that was a joke.. your doctor paid me $20 to mess up your stress test numbers)
- moffkalast 4y agoMaybe a spinoff site called hackermemes.
- incahoots 4y ago[User’s post has been gilded]
- monksy 4y agoComment Removed by Moderator
- b800h 4y agoEvery time this happens I make a stupid joke about how it never used to fall over before Elon took over and fired all the staff. It wasn't even funny the first time, but it feels like the appropriate response.
- as300 4y agoYour comment is ironic to me, because I often feel the need to suppress my urge to call out people who seem obsessed with Elon Musk, but your comment is proving that my instinct is right.
- mardifoufs 4y agoI think their comment is ironic, since today's downtime has been longer than any Twitter outage since the musk drama. And I guess I agree that it's pretty funny that redditors are usually the most vocal about the imminent collapse of Twitter's infra (in 2 more weeks)since it's now a complete dumpster fire of a platform or something.
- not_a_shill 4y agoAnd Reddit will be fine, just like Twitter.
- in_cahoots 4y agoI lost power due to wind (SF Bay Area) right around when the site went down. I wonder if some of their remote developers are in a similar situation?
- dahwolf 4y agoThis is Big Tech's way to protest against further rate hikes.
- gniv 4y agoI don't mind the outages so much, but why is the site so slow most of the time? Even the old.reddit.com site is slow. Is there no incentive to optimize the serving infrastructure?
- SuperShibe 4y agoReddit is focussed on tracking the user to keep them engaged as best as possible. Server-side rendering the page as a whole would render a lot of Reddits tracking useless. Just compare the amount of requests Reddit needs to load a single page to (e.g.) HN. Edit: They don't really care about speed because there is no competition similar to Reddit? So why bother?
- unethical_ban 4y agoHN seemed to be having issues earlier, but I speculate it may have been overflow from people who couldn't be on reddit. I wonder if it is only reddit, or if there is a cloud service that is acting up. AWS shows green across the board, but hasn't their status page been unreliable in the past?
- redbell 4y ago> Welcome back! You are already logged in and will be redirected back to Reddit shortly. Then.. > Something went wrong. Just don't panic. Don't worry Reddit! I am OK. I hope you.. don't panic :)
- wan_ala 4y agoAfter a few hours I am now getting the error message "Failed to parse page JSON data: expected value at line 2 column 1" (I use libreddit so it might be different for you). I wonder what is going on over there.
- novakinblood 4y agoI thought the libreddit instance I was using was down and then I went to another instance, then another, …, and another, and finally thought “maybe Reddit is down?”