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I suspect HN gets an influx of readers the instant Reddit goes down, one of them being me.

Is it mundane? It's been down for nearly an hour.

Reddit is down a lot, it’s almost a injoke on Reddit.

Not for an hour. This is unusual.

Scrolling through their uptime history, it looks like this was the biggest incident in 3 years, perhaps longer,

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=14

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=16

I looked through the whole thing back to 2011/09 and there was never more than a "6 component partial outage". Only a few "1 component major outage":

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=26

The one just now was a "7 component major outage". Annoyingly, these links are going to be inaccurate in the future since they're paged from the present date.

Reddit being down is a running joke since day one. I feel like us old timers just expect it

Reddit used to go down all the time but in the last 3 years it has been very stable and hardly ever goes down.

Very likely to see a post-mortem for the incident show up right here on HN :)

We need to make a subreddit for this