[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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