Is reddit becoming unusable?

I haven't experienced much downtime. I think I'm more weary of the quality of content than the down time. The quality of content has gone down quite a bit. There seems to be a group of topics/meme/techniques which dominates the top posts. You can even call them the "Strange Attractors" of Redditsphere.

I'm guessing you can't log in right now either.

I don't see much downtime. I use in the morning, say till 10 or so, and in evening after 6:30. When are all the downtimes? I'll hit a glitch from time to time but it's usually very short-lived.

I don't know - they finally got funds together to hire a couple or three folks, so maybe uptime will improve. Reddit users won't deal well with mucho downtime. Something will get done. If there is another comparable site or community, I haven't heard of it.

I spend more time on HN these days for that reason. I actually prefer the content of Reddit (or at least in the specific subreddits I subscribe to) and it does have a better sense of humour and is less insular than HN. But HN loads faster and is rarely down. When I have just a few minutes in a work break that's important.

Very frustrating. I just know there's a window of a few hrs in the morning (for me) in which its usable. The rest of the day I don't bother trying.

because almost all of the visitors of digg went to reddit. they are having hard time handling the traffic.. they're very unfortunate that they sold it to conde nast.

.. and it's down right now.