Reddit Is Down

[flutas]

Wonder if some of their critical infra got hit by a power outage?[0]

Really a power outage shouldn't cause this as backups and generators...but maybe something was overlooked?

Guess we will just have to wait and see what the postmortem says.

[0]: Context: https://poweroutage.us/

EDIT: Seems like a no based on the latest update.

> Identified - We've identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix.

[alfalfasprout]

Is reddit on-prem or in the cloud? If in the cloud, AWS/GCE have tons of redundancy in power, internet connectivity, etc.

[takeda]

Way to push your biases.

The most affected part of California is central: https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california

It's because they currently have floods there.

Reddit runs on AWS and they don't have region in central CA so it's obvious whatever they are experiencing is unrelated.

[kibwen]

Reddit is down at least once a week, but this is certainly a different error message than normal: "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers". Normally it's just something vague like "Oops, something went wrong".

I'm also amused at the possible explanation that they might have simply improved their error messages, causing us to assume this is a different sort of outage than usual.

[EamonnMR]

I've seen this one plenty of times.

[code_duck]

I've been simply unable to connect at all.

[AustinDev]

HN is having issues as well...

[leros]

I'm wondering if Hackernews is just getting extra load since Reddit is down.

[Workaccount2]

Looks like I'll have to get back to work

[solarmist]

This seems to be related to GPT-4 and other big stories all landing today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344

[irrational]

I had just changed my DNS settings when I tried Reddit and it didn't work and then tried HN and it was really really slow. I was starting to think there was something wrong with my DNS change until I saw this post and comment.

[tgv]

From my end, European sites load quickly.

[kingTug]

Hackernews is crawling also. How am I to procrastinate?!

[allenrb]

Hah! I’m sitting here waiting for eye surgery and figured it was slow hospital wifi. You’re right, though. Other sites are quick!

If someone screws up and kills me, HN will be the last thing I remember. ;-)

[berjin]

Shilling my web game: redactle-unlimited.com A redacted wikipedia article is displayed and you must uncover the title. It's inspired by redactle.com which has been offline for a couple weeks.

[backtoyoujim]

the lights are flashing from their screens and the bunnies is still furiously tapping their paddles in their cages meanwhile the treats stoppeth for no matter how many times paw goes to button there are not more treats to be had.

the experiment is over.

[johnaspden]

It'll keep until tomorrow.

[code_duck]

It's a good chance to ponder how or where I will waste time once Reddit is ruined somehow.

[djbusby]

With all the tech layoffs they can get some SREs? Gotta be online to sell ads for your IPO.

[Rebelgecko]

I can't link to it right now since the link is on reddit, but it's kinda funny timing with the rant one of their recruiters did on LinkedIn over the weekend

[323]

People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.

[derefr]

Is there a directory of known AI forum-posting bots? Would be interesting to see what uses they’re being put to / what they’re tuned to talk about.

[GalenErso]

"Productivity jumps by unexpected 2.3% in Q1: NBER"

"'We don't know where it's coming from', said Jasper Bruch, economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 'It's an outlier, but other indicators have held steady. Your guess is as good as mine.' The Federal Reserve did not comment."

[theshrike79]

Someone misconfigured a switch at a major node again?

[solarmist]

Wonder if it's related to the AWS issues? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157388

[drstewart]

A major site being hard down for 1hr+ and everyone just shrugs and says it happens... unless it's Twitter, in which case it's a harbinger of the company dying and how this shouldn't happen to major sites.

[code_duck]

Reddit wasn't recently bought by someone who fired 80% of the staff.

[mkl95]

DNS apocalypse incoming

[AlbertCory]

I had a long post and it said "please fix the identified issues" when there weren't any.

[plim8481]

Time to get back to work...

[susodapop]

For me reddit.com is alive and well but old.reddit.com has CDN issues.

[dmonitor]

new.reddit.com loads but has a bunch of error messages where the posts should be on my end

[sirmike_]

Probably for the best.

[dageshi]

Where the hell am I going to talk about bad litrpg's?

[TylerE]

There are ones that aren't?

[cauthon]

any recs?

[ProZsolt]

old.reddit.com is back online, new and the app is still down.

[smbullet]

Is Source 2 out?