Right now, if you would try to enter Reddit, it says "all of our servers are busy right now" and most of the times "this page is temporarily in read-only mode due to heavy traffic".<p>Why is it still happening in 2017 after many successful examples like Facebook, Twitter etc.?
Sort of related but not about the main site being down: search crashes way more often than I expected it would for such a popular site. I read an AMA by the CEO that said they're rolling out a new search by (the end of?) this summer. Probably not enough resources to scale up as fast as they want to.
Technical details aside, it could be because a high-impact news story is running on Reddit (and isn't available elsewhere, neither on FB/Twitter or mainstream news)
They have what 100 employees. That is not enough to run a 8 billion monthly pageviews site.<p>The heavy traffic right now is probably due to #BuckinghamPalace