Reddit is DOWN for thousands of users

Welcome, hope you like Linux memes…and beans.

Don't forget to apply to the No Poop Challenge!

Jokes aside, welcome. It's a bit messy but fun here. Make sure to take a look at how instances work, for most part you can ignore it but it does improve a lot your experience.

Yeah, after the API changes I created a lemmy account

Welcome to Lemmy. Glad to get new people here.

Just a quick FAQ because newbies tend to get some common things wrong:

Q: What is a "community"?

A: A community is basically a subreddit that lives in a specific instance

Q: What are we called in Lemmy?

A: Most people use "lemming"

Q: What is an instance?

A: An instance is basically a server. For example, you registered at lemmy.world. lemmy.world is an instance. With the power of federation, you don't need to register at other fediverse platforms to interact with stuff there here (only applicable to federated AND supported fediverse platforms). For example, mastodon.social can mostly interact with lemmy servers (instances)

Also, don't mind the old looking minimalstic UI of lemmy. A revamp of the UI with a more modern design is being developed as we speak

Any questions welcome.

Welcome! Watch out for Hexbear and the .ml instances, lots of disinformation and propaganda

Welcome! You might want to check out [email protected] for tips and stuff.

Welcome ! Have a look at [email protected] for communities that might interest you

Welcome!

Welcome.

Wilkommen, amigo!

Glad to have you here!

Welcome new Lemming!

Happy hatching day!

Commas, please!

And welcome :)

Damn it, you beat me to it.

new.reddit.com still works it seems. I think they're going to take Old.Reddit.com offline, the bastards. If they do that, I may end up back here at Lemmy fulltime. I know none of you want that!

Same issue here.

I think it's just a temporary issue, but I really will stop using Reddit if old.reddit.com goes down. There are niches that just aren't on here... but that UI.

Both don't work for me.

Back up now for me, all frontends.

They are going to use the scrapping of old as the reason why. My apps that scrape it are down.

My how I Wish lemmy was better.

Yeah same.

Woah there pardner...

Funny how they have the audacity to complain about this place being botted when their bot problem is so, SO much worse.

Another strength of decentralized social media

Same here, lol

I don't get it either. I know a lot of lemmy users have an axe to grind with reddit, but treating every temporary outage like it's dead forever is just bizarre.

Yeah back when still used reddit I found myself scrolling through the comments of coping redditters on downdetector.com at least once every couple of months I swear, and I was never even that active

True that. It's incredible how terrible reddit is from the technical point of view. You can clearly see that even if they have good engineers there, they aren't getting any resources to do their job properly.

In some faraway data center fan noise has reduced somewhat for the duration.

All corporate social media needs to die

Eventually it will, these for-profit venture capitalist companies always eat themselves sooner or later, it's only a matter of time.

It's cool you can call stuff out on here. I tried that on Reddit and got banned. Then called out the mods and got banned from the site for harassment 🤷‍♂️

Reddit can't die off fast enough. It's clearly past its prime

Voyager has an option to block specific websites/keywords which may be useful to you (depending on your device of choice). Not sure if other front ends have that but I think it's worth looking into.

Use Lemmy

I will lend you this one in the meantime:

why do honest communicstion when yould instead make people feel guilty and coerce them into coming back

There are a few options off the top off my head

1. the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK -- this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
2. The status checks run at some interval and you're hitting it before that interval
3. There's some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don't register as full-blown outages.
4. the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed

There are probably other cases. I don't know the architecture in this case, so I won't speculate at any others.

At one of the tech companies I worked at, “uptime” was one of the primary metrics that was advertised to customers. There was never a written policy, but management HIGHLY discouraged updating the outage dashboard unless the world was literally on fire, because it made their vanity metric look bad in advertisements.

…yes that’s as dumb as you think it is, but it’s quite common in the tech industry.

You mean redditstatus.com? Might be linked to internal ticket portals.
If you ask because of the domain, it might be to be resilient if theres an issue with the TLD of the company e.g. status.example.com vs status-example.com

There are a thousand dozen of us!

I use Arch.

/s

Oh he's just juicing his beetle.

It was you!!!!!!

To be fair, the day they actually kill old.reddit we can expect an influx of new users here, so it's still good to keep an eye on it

Here is the GitHub page: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

An enshittified Lemmy alternative.

Too soon...

^/s

Ask kbin.social

It can happen because communities and users are monolithic. You lose your home instance, you have to create a new account somewhere else. The community is located in the instance that goes down, you can no longer participate in it and its former members all have to scramble if they want to participate.

Your user is still linked to your home instance. If that goes down, you don't have access to it. You can still browse Lemmy from other servers.