I am convinced that Reddit's status page underreports outages, there are a lot of times I can't access the site for 15min but it never shows up on here. (And I don't even visit it that often.)<p>I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.
Does anyone know why Reddit seems to be alone among the world’s most popular sites in having so many outages and frequent periods of slowness? I’ve been on it for more than a decade and its unreliability has been fairly constant. Is the engineering team more resource constrained than others or held back by unusual amounts of legacy code, or is it simply confirmation bias resulting from earlier experiences?
Anecdotal, but old.reddit.com (besides search) seems to always work during these outages. I'm guessing they're always knocking out the AJAX and search machines for some reason
I gave it some thought. I’ve distilled the reddit value proposition for me at least.<p>Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments.<p>With reddit it’s a common interface to every topic I’m interested in. I’m subscribed to about 60 subreddits now, from off grid cabins to deep learning to Spacex.
Oh, an actual status report.<p>I expected this to be a page that just said:<p>"Mostly upset about stuff, but still quite witty, completely random, and - this is a re-post."
Looking forward to this postmortem!
Looks like their request rate has dropped by like 80%-90%!!
Don't know if that include CDN requests or what, assuming it's just the reddit.com domain.