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Reddit definitely doesn’t have outages like this almost weekly. Maybe 10+ years ago, but it’s rare now.

atchoo 3y ago
It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN". Maybe it is a regional thing?
- Merad 3y ago
  Eastern US here. I will get those errors a few times a week but I'd say 80% of the time it works on a refresh and most of the rest of the time it's back within 30s.
- SkyMarshal 3y ago
  Might be, I’m US west coast fwiw.
- lamontcg 3y ago
  Also very common for when you post a comment that it appears to not have posted it and returns an error, then you retry multiple times and get multiple comments posted. And even if you don't get hit by one of those outages, they tend to get saved in the comments from everyone else having hit them.
- unaindz 3y ago
  For me in the EU it fails once a year or so and only on the few occasions I use reddit's own webpage instead of a third party app or web like libreddit.
jeremy_k 3y ago
Not true at all in regards to 10+ years ago. Once at week, if not more, Reddit fails to load for me. I refresh the page and it appears I've been logged out. Continue refreshing the page until my session is revived and things are back to normal. I'll often open a post and the header will load but Reddit will fail to load the comments with a click to retry loading comments.
- cleandreams 3y ago
  This has literally never happened to me. I started using it almost daily 3 years ago.
nullityrofl 3y ago
You can't be using Reddit very often if you think these are a relic from 10+ years ago. I would say I experience a Reddit outage at least weekly. My friends and I have a running joke about how often it's down. The official Reddit Status Twitter account proves that it happens very, very regularly: https://twitter.com/redditstatus https://twitter.com/redditstatus
- 29083011397778 3y ago
  To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party apps, I don't actually recall the last time Reddit didn't load for me.
  - nullityrofl 3y ago
    No, I only ever use old.reddit and BaconReader. I've never used the new UI or the official app. The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus https://twitter.com/redditstatus The "elevated error rates" always presents as an "oops, you broke reddit!" landing even on old.reddit. I imagine since it is an "elevated error rate" rather than a total outage that it might be localized to geo or some other kind of shard. I'm on the US West Coast, though, so I can't imagine I'm in a minority. (Which is confirmed by the number of people responding to GP.)
    - nullfield 3y ago
      Well, BaconReader is likely dead at the end of the month with their API changes (along with Apollo, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, etc.)
    - 29083011397778 3y ago
      Little late, but I think I see how we have such different experiences. Assuming other comments are right, and Reddit's pulling pretty much entirely from cache, you probably just scroll longer than I do - long enough to run out of the first ~1000 (cached) posts, and hit uncached items. You'd get timeouts, and I'd never see them - despite being West Coast (Canada) as well. Or at least, that's my best guess so far.
fullspectrumdev 3y ago
I see outages browsing Reddit almost daily - either the “can’t reach cdn” error or the generic “you broke it” error. I always just assume the uptimes absolute dogshit.
- static_motion 3y ago
  I see those every now and again but it's usually a one-off, it'll load properly after a refresh. This time it was down or extremely slow for 10-15 minutes which is definitely uncommon.
babypuncher 3y ago
It's still weekly, the outages just don't last as long. Source: I'm finally breaking a 13 year Reddit addiction.
davidw 3y ago
I see stuff like that all the time. It feels pretty common to me.
vitorgrs 3y ago
I use Reddit daily and I get the outages pretty frequently (twice a month?)... From Brazil.

It's often not working for me in the UK e.g. "You've broken reddit" and "Can't reach CDN". Maybe it is a regional thing?

Merad 3y ago
Eastern US here. I will get those errors a few times a week but I'd say 80% of the time it works on a refresh and most of the rest of the time it's back within 30s.
SkyMarshal 3y ago
Might be, I’m US west coast fwiw.
lamontcg 3y ago
Also very common for when you post a comment that it appears to not have posted it and returns an error, then you retry multiple times and get multiple comments posted. And even if you don't get hit by one of those outages, they tend to get saved in the comments from everyone else having hit them.
unaindz 3y ago
For me in the EU it fails once a year or so and only on the few occasions I use reddit's own webpage instead of a third party app or web like libreddit.

jeremy_k 3y ago

Not true at all in regards to 10+ years ago. Once at week, if not more, Reddit fails to load for me. I refresh the page and it appears I've been logged out. Continue refreshing the page until my session is revived and things are back to normal. I'll often open a post and the header will load but Reddit will fail to load the comments with a click to retry loading comments.

cleandreams 3y ago
This has literally never happened to me. I started using it almost daily 3 years ago.

nullityrofl 3y ago

You can't be using Reddit very often if you think these are a relic from 10+ years ago. I would say I experience a Reddit outage at least weekly. My friends and I have a running joke about how often it's down. The official Reddit Status Twitter account proves that it happens very, very regularly: https://twitter.com/redditstatus https://twitter.com/redditstatus

29083011397778 3y ago
To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party apps, I don't actually recall the last time Reddit didn't load for me.
- nullityrofl 3y ago
  No, I only ever use old.reddit and BaconReader. I've never used the new UI or the official app. The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus https://twitter.com/redditstatus The "elevated error rates" always presents as an "oops, you broke reddit!" landing even on old.reddit. I imagine since it is an "elevated error rate" rather than a total outage that it might be localized to geo or some other kind of shard. I'm on the US West Coast, though, so I can't imagine I'm in a minority. (Which is confirmed by the number of people responding to GP.)
  - nullfield 3y ago
    Well, BaconReader is likely dead at the end of the month with their API changes (along with Apollo, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, etc.)
  - 29083011397778 3y ago
    Little late, but I think I see how we have such different experiences. Assuming other comments are right, and Reddit's pulling pretty much entirely from cache, you probably just scroll longer than I do - long enough to run out of the first ~1000 (cached) posts, and hit uncached items. You'd get timeouts, and I'd never see them - despite being West Coast (Canada) as well. Or at least, that's my best guess so far.

fullspectrumdev 3y ago

I see outages browsing Reddit almost daily - either the “can’t reach cdn” error or the generic “you broke it” error. I always just assume the uptimes absolute dogshit.

static_motion 3y ago
I see those every now and again but it's usually a one-off, it'll load properly after a refresh. This time it was down or extremely slow for 10-15 minutes which is definitely uncommon.

babypuncher 3y ago

It's still weekly, the outages just don't last as long. Source: I'm finally breaking a 13 year Reddit addiction.

davidw 3y ago

I see stuff like that all the time. It feels pretty common to me.

vitorgrs 3y ago

I use Reddit daily and I get the outages pretty frequently (twice a month?)... From Brazil.