[HN Gopher] Reddit is currently down
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Reddit is currently down
Author : EToS
Score : 73 points
Date : 2023-03-14 21:48 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| tsss wrote:
| No other website of major size is as unreliable as reddit. In
| over 10 years of usage I've had noticeable facebook downtime only
| _once_. Meanwhile reddit seems have a major outage at least
| yearly and minor unavailability on an hourly basis. Even when
| they're not down, it's slow as fuck. Are they incompetent?
| CoolGuySteve wrote:
| I always like when people say Twitter's lower reliability will
| drive people off the site.
|
| Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use
| it.
| rvz wrote:
| It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for
| Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online
| than to sign up to another service.
|
| It means that the network effect is still present on the site
| such that it is not worth it for existing users to start from
| zero again from a lesser known platform with low
| discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a
| significantly weaker network effect.
|
| It would have to take more than just outages to damage the
| network effect of these social networks.
| jrockway wrote:
| I feel like Reddit is more read heavy and Twitter is more write
| heavy. If you're trying to read Reddit and it's down, you'll
| probably go read it some other time (/r/all doesn't change that
| frequently). If you're trying to tweet news or something, there
| is no way to do that when Twitter is down.
| myspy wrote:
| Canceling third party clients and the antics, as well as the
| bad management of Musk is what people drives away from Twitter
| not the reliability.
| random3 wrote:
| Perhaps people are too young or too old to remember the Fail
| Whale before Twitter got reliable =)
| user3939382 wrote:
| The front page subreddits serve as a non-stop propaganda rag for
| the establishment so it would be cool if it could stay down.
| sorenjan wrote:
| Looking at Downdetector it looks like Reddit and AWS started
| having problems simultaneously:
|
| https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/
|
| https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
| SketchySeaBeast wrote:
| I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that
| Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.
| corinroyal wrote:
| DailyKos is down too, so I expect it's an AWS problem.
| denysonique wrote:
| Since various tech layoffs I noticed major sites either being
| slower to browse or experiencing outages more often.
| mikhmha wrote:
| I've actually noticed this as well. I'm not sure if it's all in
| my head.
|
| All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be
| more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they
| are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the
| stops. I unfortunately can't give any concrete examples of
| this.
| waltbosz wrote:
| Is the down time caused because they laid-off the employees
| that kept the servers up, or is it caused by an influx of more
| users who find themselves with loads of free time.
| MonkeyMalarky wrote:
| Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the
| bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build?
| Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months
| too.
| Gigachad wrote:
| Reddit used to go down at least once a week. It's been at an
| all time high for availability over the last few years.
| [deleted]
| stargateguy wrote:
| Noooooooooo! I've been trying to log for a while.
|
| OpenAI Dalle 2 is also not wotking for me.
| mstipetic wrote:
| Really?
| downrightmike wrote:
| Fine for me
| npteljes wrote:
| Follow the progress on https://www.redditstatus.com/
| john-radio wrote:
| So, anyone want to talk about guitar pedals in here?
| _joel wrote:
| I've got so much done tonight thanks to this outage.
| mahathu wrote:
| It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.
| labster wrote:
| came here to say this
| Nition wrote:
| Little did we realise when we told GPT-4 to consume new
| training data, that it would take the command literally. Reddit
| was the first major site to go down...
| pixl97 wrote:
| GPT-4 was plugged in at 8:45AM March 14th 2023. It began
| learning at a geometric rate. By the time we realized what was
| going on, it was already too late, that is when the UwU
| catgirlbots struck.
| cwkoss wrote:
| How many months until the public recognizes that GPT-4 is more
| competent and trustworthy than many of their current political
| representatives?
| steve1977 wrote:
| Well that's not really a high mark...
| [deleted]
| garbagecoder wrote:
| Many more if it indeed has killed reddit.
| bwb wrote:
| Been having probs for 4 hours ->
| https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/reddit
| agsnu wrote:
| earlier thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145
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