Reddit is currently down

[dang]

Related ongoing threads:

Reddit has been down for more than an hour - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145

Reddit Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157078

[CoolGuySteve]

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.

[bnralt]

It's interesting comparing the relatively calm discussion here to Reddit being down for hours (and still down as I type this) to the hyperbolic comments people were making about the death of Twitter when Twitter briefly had some issues the other day[1] (the site wasn't down but had some issues, and they were resolved in less than an hour).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043433

[myspy]

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.

[jrockway]

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.

[22289d]

It has actually gotten a lot better. Incremental progress for a few years and we're in a fairly good place. This is highly unusual.

[paulpauper]

It's tempting to want to blame the admins or political bias...the main problem are the mods for individual subs. Too much domain and keyword filtering, arbitrary removals of content, algorithmic removals/filtering, etc. The whole point of moderating is to actually moderate, not remove stuff automatically all the time. Even content that gets up-voted and users like, will not uncommonly be removed for no reason. If they don't want to moderate, they should be removed by the admins and replaced by new moderators who will. The tendency as time goes on is for subs to become increasingly moderated and censored to the point of being useless.

[random3]

Perhaps people are too young or too old to remember the Fail Whale before Twitter got reliable =)

[sharlos201068]

Reddit's reliability used to be much much worse than its early days.

These days it's not perfect but far from awful.

[rvz]

It is actually hilarious. People would rather wait for Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc to get back online than to sign up to another alternative social network.

It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to 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. Hence why alternatives like Mastodon, didn't take off as many here thought.

[smcl]

Correct, reddit has been up and down pretty regularly and has had its own share of problems like the irritating web interface and the nagging to user their iOS/Android app. Twitter had a terrible time coping with growth in the 2010s and the "fail whale" became a bit of a meme, but that died down as they got a hold of how to handle hockey-stick growth. Suddenly we're seeing that a bit more frequently. Weird, that!

It's interesting how this line has shifted after the layoffs from:

1. actually it'll be fine, they had too many staff. nothing will change.

2. actually it's broken because Twitter "1.0" sucks, is brittle and is unsustainable. we need to throw out their garbage code.

3. actually it's ok to have downtime, it worked for the guys who have a less than a quarter of the active users we do [0][1] who also have a year-on-year decline in users!

I guess I'm gonna have to answer the "you just hate Twitter/Elon" thing - look I would've been happy if Twitter carried on as-is, even if Elon let his politically active pals back on the site again. But they dumped Tweetbot, I don't like Twitter's app, I found I liked Ivory + a bunch of people on Mastodon so :shrug: maybe Twitter isn't for me any more. No biggie.

[0] - 237 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily...

[1] - 50 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324264/reddit-daily-act...

[_joel]

Depends what you're using it for, I guess.

[serf]

if you're the only one filling a void, people forgive a lot.

reddit is the place at the moment for a lot of people, that affords them a lot of forgiveness.

[wutbrodo]

Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.

[bwb]

Been having probs for 4 hours -> https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/reddit

[denysonique]

Since various tech layoffs I noticed major sites either being slower to browse or experiencing outages more often.

[Gigachad]

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.

[waltbosz]

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.

[mikhmha]

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.

[postalrat]

I'm sure you aren't the only person that would want to see that.

[sorenjan]

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/

[ortusdux]

According to reddit, it is an internal issue: https://www.redditstatus.com/

[SketchySeaBeast]

I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.

[corinroyal]

DailyKos is down too, so I expect it's an AWS problem.

[andrewinardeer]

> We've implemented our fix and are slowly allowing things to ramp back up. We're not yet out of the woods. How do you draw a banana? Asking for a friend. Posted 18 minutes ago. Mar 14, 2023 - 16:18 PDT

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

[deminature]

Still dead as a doornail, despite misleadingly now being labelled as a 'partial outage'.

[john-radio]

So, anyone want to talk about guitar pedals in here?

[jjulius]

I've been strongly considering adding them to my DJ setup. Looking to ditch my super outdated EFX-500 and want to stay away from gear that's common DJ effects boxes. I also like the idea of having one item that does one thing well, rather than an effects box with everything under the sun.

Anyway, I'm done with this movement. Time to flush and shower.

... we are supposed to be making Reddit-like posts in here... right?

[bmitc]

I have been wanting to get back into learning the FV-1, which is used in a lot of guitar pedals.

http://www.spinsemi.com/products.html

https://electric-canary.com/fv1start.html

[bombcar]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31948881 Design lessons from guitar pedals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34025929 Vim pedal

[yurishimo]

Really enjoying my Chase Bliss Gravitas :)

[renewedrebecca]

Get anything new recently? My last acquisition was a TC Electronic Super Chorus Flanger reissue- very nice :-)

[codeTired]

No, but we can talk about modding my sim rig pedals to load cell.

[npteljes]

Follow the progress on https://www.redditstatus.com/

[agsnu]

earlier thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145

[silisili]

They must have moved whoever was in charge of the video player to head of devops...

[capableweb]

Probably forming a infrastructure super team with the UX/design lead for the redesign as well, what can go wrong?

[epmatsw]

This is all Aaron Rodgers’s fault, where am I supposed to see updates on the gossip about him now???

[mahathu]

It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.

[pixl97]

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]

How many months until the public recognizes that GPT-4 is more competent and trustworthy than many of their current political representatives?

[Nition]

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...

[bottlepalm]

It's funny how so many of us half expect something like this to happen and won't be surprised when it does.

[labster]

came here to say this

[ecf]

> We're almost back! You can find us hanging out in /r/downtimebananas, join us!

Who comes up with this, and who is it for?

[capableweb]

Redditors. Redditors.

[flas9sd]

funnily enough today was also the day I saw a hackernews comment recycled in a twitter post in reddits daily rolling top10, something that I haven't seen before.

From r/antiwork of all - https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/11r3sfs/rich_vs_p...

The practice of re-posting across platforms amuses me.

For direct domain links nothing was >6k upvotes yet, but hard to do analytics on screenshots, the common currency of the crossposting economy - https://old.reddit.com/domain/news.ycombinator.com/top/?sort...

[_joel]

I've got so much done tonight thanks to this outage.

[CFLAddLoader]

old.reddit.com seems to still be working. I can read the comments on there, but I can't for www.reddit.com

[tsss]

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?

[Karellen]

> Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck.

Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ? I find the main site is hella slow due to the way they use JS on it, and load the page content separately from the layout. But the old site where the content is served in-line is fine. The servers are plenty fast enough; it's just the dynamic architecture of the main site is totally busted.

[yuletide666]

Facebook has probably 10x the employees and resources of reddit, this is a ridiculous comparison

edit: more like 35x actually

[hanniabu]

Reddit hacked: Criminals steal source data and internal info in cyberattack | TechRadar

https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-steal-reddit-source-d...

[theevilsharpie]

(February 10, 2023)

[stargateguy]

Noooooooooo! I've been trying to log for a while.

OpenAI Dalle 2 is also not wotking for me.

[mstipetic]

Really?

[albastru]

It's back again, it seems.

[jonny_eh]

Not for me. At least there’s no comments yet.

[x0]

still dead for me.

[downrightmike]

Fine for me

[throwayyy479087]

I'm convinced Reddit will never IPO because it will have to open its books, and that a large chunk of their revenue comes from direct payments for astroturfing. It must be at least tempting for them - and it's not like anyone would notice on r/politics or any of the other big subs.