[8589934591]

Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.

[bombcar]

Reminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic.

Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.

[jedberg]

My very first job out of school included running sendmail.org. Rule number one was "make sure we can handle all of Slashdot's traffic".

[andrewstuart2]

I've been messing with fastly for the first time ever. Reddit uses fastly. My bad, guys.

[andrewinardeer]

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp

Reddit is dead

[fishtacos]

Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.

[safeimp]

Same. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.

[samtho]

AWS historically has had issues detecting if itself is having issues.