Reddit has been down for more than an hour - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145
Reddit Is Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157078
Reddit's been awful for more than a decade and people still use it.
Reddit is really little different from HN; it's just bigger.
I’ve seen a lot of opinions like this but they seem to be motivated reasoning and/or summarization of the views of a small echo chamber, but not based on actual data.
I would guess most users of social media (and products/services for that matter) are not too concerned with antics of the owners.
It seems pretty inarguable that some people are using the site less. I'm one. In order for overall usage to remain the same, there needs to be people making up for that. Do these people exist? Who is using the site more because of Musk? I'm honestly not sure, because if they do exist, I don't follow them.
Literally nobody outside of Twitter knows. As it's no longer a public company, they're under no obligation to share any metrics.
My guess would be it increased until the end of 2022 (people were interested in how it's gonna turn out and more importantly World Cup was happening), but I'd be shocked if the usage didn't drop dramatically as 2023 rolled in.
The network effect is real, so without substantial change, twitter is still the best platform for tweeting.
All user generated content is read heavy. Most people just lurk. Twitter publishing view counts is demonstrating this clearly. You'll get 3 likes, 2 comments, and 400 views.
Just thought I’d mention that Twitter’s exposed view count is not indicative of actual views from users. You can get hundred of views on a private account with a handful of followers.
From what I see, Twitter is just a tool for narcissists, and they absolutely need to write to exist.
Come on, almost every evening you get error pages. Yes they don't last more than a few refreshes, but it's simply ridiculous for a site as prominent as Reddit.
The only thing I do more than Reddit is sleep - and I do not get error pages everyday. A few years ago, yes. Now they are pretty rare. Maybe once a week.
The past couple days have been the first error messages in years.
It used to be monthly
These days it's not perfect but far from awful.
It means that the network effect is still present on the site such that it is not worth it for existing users to migrate and start from zero again to a lesser known platform with low discoverability or little to no activity. Especially one with a significantly weaker network effect.
It would have to take more than just outages to damage the network effect of these social networks. Hence why alternatives like Mastodon, didn't take off as many here thought.
Here's mainstream news trying to get people onto Mastodon, and even this is in the "tech" section: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-social-media-twitter-r...
That's entirely a tech problem, rather than a people problem
It's interesting how this line has shifted after the layoffs from:
1. actually it'll be fine, they had too many staff. nothing will change.
2. actually it's broken because Twitter "1.0" sucks, is brittle and is unsustainable. we need to throw out their garbage code.
3. actually it's ok to have downtime, it worked for the guys who have a less than a quarter of the active users we do [0][1] who also have a year-on-year decline in users!
I guess I'm gonna have to answer the "you just hate Twitter/Elon" thing - look I would've been happy if Twitter carried on as-is, even if Elon let his politically active pals back on the site again. But they dumped Tweetbot, I don't like Twitter's app, I found I liked Ivory + a bunch of people on Mastodon so :shrug: maybe Twitter isn't for me any more. No biggie.
[0] - 237 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/970920/monetizable-daily...
[1] - 50 million/day, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324264/reddit-daily-act...
reddit is the place at the moment for a lot of people, that affords them a lot of forgiveness.
They eventually managed to ban enough subreddits/users to reach a state of reliablity...
Are you proposing that subreddits full of slurs are harder for the server to return as a byte-string?
All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the stops. I unfortunately can’t give any concrete examples of this.
Sites get slow as they need to make more round trips before showing useful stuff
>All: our poor server is smoking today* so I've had to reduce the page size of comments. There are already a thousand comments in this thread but if you want to read more than a few dozen you'll need to page through them by clicking the More link at the bottom. I apologize!
>Also, if you're cool with read-only access, just log out and all will be fast again.
>* yes, HN still runs on one core, at least the part that serves logged-in requests, and yes this will all get better someday...it kills me that this isn't done yet but one day you will all see
Edit: i.e. a form of cascading failure.
Anyway, I'm done with this movement. Time to flush and shower.
... we are supposed to be making Reddit-like posts in here... right?
(Sorry, I have a need to post meaningless updoot-bait, and reddit is down!)
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Who comes up with this, and who is it for?
From r/antiwork of all - https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/11r3sfs/rich_vs_p...
The practice of re-posting across platforms amuses me.
For direct domain links nothing was >6k upvotes yet, but hard to do analytics on screenshots, the common currency of the crossposting economy - https://old.reddit.com/domain/news.ycombinator.com/top/?sort...
Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ? I find the main site is hella slow due to the way they use JS on it, and load the page content separately from the layout. But the old site where the content is served in-line is fine. The servers are plenty fast enough; it's just the dynamic architecture of the main site is totally busted.
edit: more like 35x actually
https://www.techradar.com/news/hackers-steal-reddit-source-d...
OpenAI Dalle 2 is also not wotking for me.
