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Reddit Is Down

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28 pointsadossaji15 comments

I want to say this without any implied sneering or arrogance, I am sure keeping a site like Reddit up must be monumentally hard and I don't think I could do a better job at all, but isn't it down quite often compared to other sites of its stature? Reddit is in the top 10 US websites, I don't seem to experience as many outages with the others. Is it a funding issue?

They have 99.9% uptime most months. You may just notice it because you use it more?

https://reddit.statuspage.io/uptime

For what it's worth, I have not found Reddit's status page to be accurate. They seem to have a lot of localized issues that make the site unusable for a small subset of users, but don't get reported as global downtime.

HackerNews is now the new interim /r/programming

The two communities have surprisingly different cultures (despite having high content overlap).

How would you describe them?

Twitter feed https://twitter.com/redditstatus

And linked status page:

We are currently investigating this issue. Posted 30 minutes ago. Sep 18, 2019 - 13:27 PDT

https://reddit.statuspage.io/incidents/4q8mfp969hky?u=3mcg5t...

For the last day or so Reddit's been having glitches where posts and comments often end up posted 5 or so times. I imagine this is related.

Akamai blogs about DDoS amplification this morning, Reddit down this afternoon? Ok this is probably more than a simple UDP flood but... the timing has me worried. If it is a DDoS, taking down Reddit is a hell of a flex. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/in-th...

Reddit goes down all the time on it's own, so what would it matter

Who has the ability to DDoS reddit?

Maybe it's the US government trying to squelch discussion of the UFOs

/tinfoil hat

Reddit’s redesign - not a strict DDoS but it has the same effect. (And not everyone knows to go to old.reddit for the traditional SSR pages)

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