Reddit is DOWN for thousands of users

Reddit being down is how I found out about this place. This is literally my first post here. Thanks for sucking Reddit!
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- Yeah, after the API changes I created a lemmy account
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Oh no! Anyways...
- Damn it, you beat me to it.

Reddit.com still works. Old.reddit.com does not.
Wonder if they've decided to finally do away with old reddit?
Edit: Old.reddit is back up for what it's worth.
- new.reddit.com still works it seems. I think they're going to take Old.Reddit.com offline, the bastards. If they do that, I may end up back here at Lemmy fulltime. I know none of you want that!
  
  That's the final nail for a lot of people
  
  i occasionally use reddit and they've killed new.reddit lol, the new new layout is permanent
- Same issue here.
  I think it's just a temporary issue, but I really will stop using Reddit if old.reddit.com goes down. There are niches that just aren't on here... but that UI.
  
  The UI is unacceptable and an exercise in everything wrong with modern UI.
- Both don't work for me.
- Back up now for me, all frontends.
- They are going to use the scrapping of old as the reason why. My apps that scrape it are down.
  My how I Wish lemmy was better.
  
  Piefed, Sublinks, and Mbin are all coming along.

Weird, it's been down for me since June of last year.
- Yeah same.
- Woah there pardner...

Literally thousands. That's all the humans that are left.
- Funny how they have the audacity to complain about this place being botted when their bot problem is so, SO much worse.
  
  i dont think i've seen more than 3 botted users here lmao

Nooooo, the poor 100 users and 2 billion bots!

When my Lemmy instance is down (which is very rare, much more stable than Reddit), I just browse via a different instance!
- Another strength of decentralized social media
  
  It’s beautiful. I’ve been here when world was down and the rest of Lemmy runs business as usual.
- Same here, lol

Who cares? Reddit has historically had a ton of outtages. Why even post this?
- I don't get it either. I know a lot of lemmy users have an axe to grind with reddit, but treating every temporary outage like it's dead forever is just bizarre.
  
  It's like honestly delusional behavior. Just a huge echo chamber repeating the same boring shit over and over. It's ironic because one of the reasons that people came to Lemmy was to eacape the Reddit circklejerk culture.
- Yeah back when still used reddit I found myself scrolling through the comments of coping redditters on downdetector.com at least once every couple of months I swear, and I was never even that active
- True that. It's incredible how terrible reddit is from the technical point of view. You can clearly see that even if they have good engineers there, they aren't getting any resources to do their job properly.

Think of all the poor bots that can't repost!
- In some faraway data center fan noise has reduced somewhat for the duration.

I hope reddit dies
- All corporate social media needs to die
- Eventually it will, these for-profit venture capitalist companies always eat themselves sooner or later, it's only a matter of time.

Good! Now stay down!

DAILY MAIL is a shit SHIT source.
But fuck reddit.
- It's cool you can call stuff out on here. I tried that on Reddit and got banned. Then called out the mods and got banned from the site for harassment 🤷‍♂️
  Reddit can't die off fast enough. It's clearly past its prime
  
  Reddit is against free speech and their mods get mad if you disagree with them even if you're right.

We may have our opinions about the qualities of Reddit. But the Daily Mail? I feel dirty, just having a link to that dump on my screen.
- Voyager has an option to block specific websites/keywords which may be useful to you (depending on your device of choice). Not sure if other front ends have that but I think it's worth looking into.

Not just the US. Can’t access it from NZ either.
I definitely prefer the vibe of lemmy but there’s still communities I visit on Reddit for reviews and discussions about more niche topics.

...butt I'm on the toilet! I need my precious!
- Use Lemmy
  
  What's Lemmy?

Reddit down report #420 this year.
Tell me when AWS or something is down. Reddit goes down so often it becomes a nothing burger

Hang on, I'm 3D printing a tiny violin.
- I will lend you this one in the meantime:

I was looking something up and of course Reddit came up but kept telling me “YOU BROKE REDDIT”.
What a shitty way to express an issue that your site is causing for users. Just go ahead and blame the users. That’s great for noobs who don’t know anything and will legitimately think they did something wrong on their end.
- why do honest communicstion when yould instead make people feel guilty and coerce them into coming back
  
  Look, I hate reddit as much as the next person, but if you don't realize that page is a joke, you're too dumb for the internet.

Somewhat tangential question: Why do so many sites have links to an external status monitoring site, but when the site is down and you go to check the status on that external status monitoring site, it says everything's fine? What's the point of the status site if it doesn't actually acknowledge that there's any sort of outage nor provide any info on it?
- There are a few options off the top off my head
  the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK -- this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
  The status checks run at some interval and you're hitting it before that interval
  There's some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don't register as full-blown outages.
  the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed
  There are probably other cases. I don't know the architecture in this case, so I won't speculate at any others.
  
  Maybe it's not automated and whoever is responsible isn't awake yet.
- At one of the tech companies I worked at, “uptime” was one of the primary metrics that was advertised to customers. There was never a written policy, but management HIGHLY discouraged updating the outage dashboard unless the world was literally on fire, because it made their vanity metric look bad in advertisements.
  …yes that’s as dumb as you think it is, but it’s quite common in the tech industry.
- You mean redditstatus.com? Might be linked to internal ticket portals.
  If you ask because of the domain, it might be to be resilient if theres an issue with the TLD of the company e.g. status.example.com vs status-example.com

Oh no. The poor repost bots 😔
- There are a thousand dozen of us!

Not thousands enough

Just log in on another server... Duh!

- Oh he's just juicing his beetle.

Everyone please be nice to the influx of newcomers
If you cannot resist the urge to blurt out your alternative socioeconomic views try your best to at least do it gently
- I use Arch.
  /s

I was wondering why it kept giving me a "you broke reddit" error. Not that Im visiting reddit for funsies, but its where just about every troubleshooting search result takes me, which is frustrating.
- It was you!!!!!!

Nice. ☺️

Lol

Nice... We welcome all users to the fediverse. Try mbin!
- Here is the GitHub page: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

I'm all for substantial and lulzy schadenfreude, but this is service notification made into a daily mail article, that's when one starts seeming obsessed with a site one doesn't use anymore
- To be fair, the day they actually kill old.reddit we can expect an influx of new users here, so it's still good to keep an eye on it

Apollo sideloaded stopped working so I’m back to Lemmy. Seems like an API issue.

Well, at least I will just post on lemmy more

The bots that are reddit's biggest users can detect downtime in milliseconds.

What’s “reddit”?
^/s
- An enshittified Lemmy alternative.
- Too soon...
  ^/s

Again, if reddit keeps malfunctioning, eventually it will lose all its functionality and one day shut down for good.

Ha ha

HAHA

This problem cannot happen to feddiverse? All nodes just queue sending to others?
- Ask kbin.social
  It can happen because communities and users are monolithic. You lose your home instance, you have to create a new account somewhere else. The community is located in the instance that goes down, you can no longer participate in it and its former members all have to scramble if they want to participate.
  
  That sounds like it is room for improvement in this area.
- Your user is still linked to your home instance. If that goes down, you don't have access to it. You can still browse Lemmy from other servers.
  
  That is sad. So you know if there is any work or solution here? Maybe sync to different instances or just assume it is still you because you have the key to some algorithm and have some data saved in your client?
  
  You can make your own instance. Not everybody's cup of tea, but in the future it will likely become easier. It will only go down when you let it