It’s back up, but it still uses the dark pattern of forcing you to register after you scroll past a few comments, unless you’re using the old interface or an unofficial app.
So many dark patterns on reddit. Like trying to get you to use the app when you're on a tablet or mobile device. Or switching to the new interface when you click on a google search result that points at reddit.
I’m guessing they also purposely broke the back button on mobile browsers so people get fed up and install their app. It’s unfathomable how they got that wrong.
I’ve noticed a lot of links breaking in the “old” ui lately, where clicking on the picture on a post takes you to the subreddit instead of the thread. I don’t know if this is just a bug or the beginning of the end.
I was surprised to learn that there are only 23 sre at reddit. The site receives more traffic than Twitter. Less than 1000 employees. Seems severely understaffed? Or other companies are extremely bloated lol
Of course I could say I've never heard of similarweb.com. But let's not quibble over which site is bigger. Trust me, you ain't seen bad until you've seen Nextdoor.
That would be irrelevant since I never claimed similarweb to be a website comparable in traffic and scale to Reddit. We are discussing how Reddit is the worst implementation of one of the top websites on the planet. I never said there weren’t worse websites but show me one with Reddit like traffic that is worse.
I have worked on very high scale sites including ones that get shit on regularly on hacker news - Jira Cloud. I don't care where you work, there's no excuse for the amount of downtime reddit experiences. It's incompetence, and I don't care if you think I'm being a big meany.
In the 14 years of using reddit (unfortunately obsessively), I have rarely experienced downtime. From redditstatus.com I see that there have been no failures for the previous 90 days, except for yesterday. I'm wondering what has been your experience with the site.
And, on what basis are you being so extraordinarily dismissive of their technical capabilities? I have engineered many large-scale systems in my life (not at reddit scale), and I know that it takes some serious engineering and operational smarts to keep such a system alive.
When you run websites / APIs, nobody remembers the months of time stretch while your site was up -- they just remember the hour of downtime when you go down.
My site only handles ~ 350 million requests a month but even at that small scale, it's very tough.
Right, but the GP seemed to indicate that reddit outages are a common enough occurrence i their experience to declare them chowderheads, and I was skeptical about the stated downtime. Neither my experience nor reddit's own stats corroborate what they are saying.
I don't agree with the GP tone but you're kidding if you've used Reddit recently and don't think its hot garbage. There is a notorious login redirect bug that has existed for years. When you can't even get the login right you know there are tons of other issues.
Upvoting doesn't work without error a percentage of the time, 'load more comments' on profiles has almost never worked. The list goes on.
