Reddit Experiencing Elevated Error Rates (opens in new tab)

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51 pointsrlyshw7y ago20 comments

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jumpman5007y ago· 5 in thread

Reddit has been so much slower since the update. Breaks all the time if you have ad blocker. I'm almost thankful for it though. I've been wanting to kill my reddit addiction for a while and this clunky redesign has made me only use mobile clients.

Razengan7y ago

Reddit's nagging has been very user-hostile for a while now, especially on mobile.

Dark patterns like the big red button saying "CONTINUE" that opens the App Store, instead of letting you continue on the website.

The "redesign" is a buggy waste of screen space which loads noticeably slower and also, I think, prevents subreddits from having rich sidebars or custom themes, hindering the original promise of serving unique sub-communities.

I always use "old.reddit.com" to force the "classic" site but it still keeps jumping back to the redesign in some places like certain user profiles.

This frontend assault combined with the deplorable meatspace behavior like the Reddit admin(s) secretly editing user comments [0], threatening better apps for "stealing" their icon [1], among other scumminess [2], I think it's nigh approaching its Digg Moment.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+admin+editing+comment...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/7l2ank/rip_good_...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/reddi...

leereeves7y ago

Where could reddit's userbase go? The only other site like it that anyone has heard of is Voat, and reddit's userbase would never go there.

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jjoonathan7y ago

It's especially amusing that they call the "ad blocker" a "software blocker" on their fail screen -- even though you can clearly see from the adblocker logs that the only software being blocked is ads.

You're right, though. This might finally be enough to break me free of that particular Skinner box.

cheeze7y ago

The redesign is terrible. Saddens me.

overcast7y ago

I cut the cord to Reddit a bit over a year ago. I promise, the feeling of missing something subsides quickly.

deadalus7y ago· 2 in thread

Hey there! Sorry for the trouble. We're experiencing some elevated error rates at the moment that our infra team is working on at the moment.

- /u/sodypop (Reddit Admin)

https://redd.it/98yi74

auser247y ago

Also experiencing high censorship rates since last election

amaccuish7y ago

Try voat.co or gab.ai, there's some really lovely misunderstood people over there who have been poor victims of Reddit's "censorship" /s

FLUX-YOU7y ago· 2 in thread

I don't mean to rag on reddit specifically, but it seems like another example of traffic light statuses being useless. Github had similar examples. I don't get why anyone uses them.

rlyshwOP7y ago

Maybe I don't necessarily understand what you mean by "traffic light statuses" but I feel like the red=down; yellow=issues; green=all-good; indicators are pretty effective at quickly and concisely communicating the status of a service to the general public.

I don't see that as useless? Unless you are talking about such a system for the internal infra team. I doubt that they are looking at this public-facing "traffic light status" page, however.

FLUX-YOU7y ago

Traffic light model means using red/yellow/green.

The problem I see with a lot of sites is that there is plainly a problem, but the status is still green. I was checking reddit's status page and Aug 20th was green throughout the entire downtime and still is. The amount of times I've seen it be inaccurate makes me think it is not a good model.

I would much rather have a graph of requests served and other metrics (which reddit has). You can very clearly see a dive on the graphs and know something is wrong.

This is what I'm referring to: https://i.imgur.com/UAtFnfI.jpg

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Retroity7y ago· 1 in thread

This outage lasted quite long. I hope we get a postmortem from Reddit as to why the site went down.

rlyshwOP7y ago

It seems to be back up now. There was an outage a few days ago as well. https://reddit.statuspage.io/incidents/ysbr3dq5rgh4

There was no follow up from that Aug 15th outage, at-least as far as I can see via their social-media accounts. https://twitter.com/redditstatus

smittywerben7y ago

My mom browses Reddit now. Luckily I made her use adblock.

The CEO actively instigates political campaigns and stirs up drama on Reddit just like every news site does. I hate politics; I don't work for free.

Besides, I learn more from one comment here than thousands on Reddit. Most of it is memes and meta-jokes, there's little information anymore. It's the antithesis of efficiency, times change.

Fjolsvith7y ago

Still having outages. Also sucks that when it gives you the fail page, it blames you, instead of them taking ownership for their lousy site.

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jumpman5007y ago· 5 in thread

Razengan7y ago

Reddit's nagging has been very user-hostile for a while now, especially on mobile.

Dark patterns like the big red button saying "CONTINUE" that opens the App Store, instead of letting you continue on the website.

I always use "old.reddit.com" to force the "classic" site but it still keeps jumping back to the redesign in some places like certain user profiles.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=Reddit+admin+editing+comment...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/7l2ank/rip_good_...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/reddi...

leereeves7y ago

Where could reddit's userbase go? The only other site like it that anyone has heard of is Voat, and reddit's userbase would never go there.

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jjoonathan7y ago

You're right, though. This might finally be enough to break me free of that particular Skinner box.

cheeze7y ago

The redesign is terrible. Saddens me.

overcast7y ago

I cut the cord to Reddit a bit over a year ago. I promise, the feeling of missing something subsides quickly.

deadalus7y ago· 2 in thread

Hey there! Sorry for the trouble. We're experiencing some elevated error rates at the moment that our infra team is working on at the moment.

- /u/sodypop (Reddit Admin)

https://redd.it/98yi74

auser247y ago

Also experiencing high censorship rates since last election

amaccuish7y ago

Try voat.co or gab.ai, there's some really lovely misunderstood people over there who have been poor victims of Reddit's "censorship" /s

FLUX-YOU7y ago· 2 in thread

I don't mean to rag on reddit specifically, but it seems like another example of traffic light statuses being useless. Github had similar examples. I don't get why anyone uses them.

rlyshwOP7y ago

I don't see that as useless? Unless you are talking about such a system for the internal infra team. I doubt that they are looking at this public-facing "traffic light status" page, however.

FLUX-YOU7y ago

Traffic light model means using red/yellow/green.

I would much rather have a graph of requests served and other metrics (which reddit has). You can very clearly see a dive on the graphs and know something is wrong.

This is what I'm referring to: https://i.imgur.com/UAtFnfI.jpg

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Retroity7y ago· 1 in thread

This outage lasted quite long. I hope we get a postmortem from Reddit as to why the site went down.

rlyshwOP7y ago

It seems to be back up now. There was an outage a few days ago as well. https://reddit.statuspage.io/incidents/ysbr3dq5rgh4

There was no follow up from that Aug 15th outage, at-least as far as I can see via their social-media accounts. https://twitter.com/redditstatus

smittywerben7y ago

My mom browses Reddit now. Luckily I made her use adblock.

The CEO actively instigates political campaigns and stirs up drama on Reddit just like every news site does. I hate politics; I don't work for free.

Besides, I learn more from one comment here than thousands on Reddit. Most of it is memes and meta-jokes, there's little information anymore. It's the antithesis of efficiency, times change.

Fjolsvith7y ago

Still having outages. Also sucks that when it gives you the fail page, it blames you, instead of them taking ownership for their lousy site.

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