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Comment by tedjdziuba | Hacker News Reader

Reddit being down is not news.

That hurts. But you're right, we've had a lot of issues.

I think the reason this is news is because it is a massive Amazon failure.

Reddit gets a lot of grief for stability issues but the fact is it is an immensely popular site that a huge number of people have a close affiliation to. A massive percentage of these people spend a significant portion of their day browsing Reddit, interacting with other redditors, etc. and for the site to be down for as long as it has is news, regardless of similar issues occuring in the past.

The main reason this is news is because this is an Amazon issue but also because tens of thousands of people who frequent the site regularly are now aimlessly browsing the internet in the hopes of finding alternative lulz and in my case some of us are even getting work done. shudder

I can't imagine how frustrating the jobs of the Reddit admins must be.

Is admin supposed to be plural? I mean, do they really have multiple system admins now? I ask, only because I know people have been coming and going recently.

Frankly, for the size of the site, they do really, really well for the limited resources they have.

I meant admins in the more general purpose sense of administrators, people who are paid to maintain the system. But yeah I agree, quality:resources ratio is really really high.

It's usually very rewarding. The awesome community is what keeps me doing it.

Awesome, I just figured out that you kept the votes tallied during the 'downtime'. What's interesting is how clearly good and bad submissions were dichotomized when nobody had anything else to vote on.

You made Google App Engine managers cry once: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/dziuba_google_app_en...

Anything coming up for amazon? If not for anything else, for pure entertainment value!

No. Not really. But we kind of miss it anyway.

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