Old.reddit.com Down?

9wzYQbTYsAIc · on April 3, 2022

https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/1510414922605236230?...

Reddit is experiencing an increased error rate, not yet reflected on the status page.

schlipity · on April 3, 2022

When I'm logged in, neither old.reddit.com or reddit.com work.

I do have the user option to use the old UI turned on in the user preferences, so reddit.com and old.reddit.com are the same to me.

So I went to reddit.com in a private window (not logged in) and it came right up.

gniv · on April 3, 2022

Thank you for posting this! I thought reddit was down and was trying to figure out what's happening. Turns out it's just old that's down?

chimpansteve · on April 3, 2022

Not for me. It's the new one too.

zelphirkalt · on April 3, 2022

Seems like old.reddit.com is experiencing problems. Shows message:

> Our CDN was unable to reach our servers > Please check www.redditstatus.com if you consistently get this error.

However, according to the status page everything should be operational.

josephcsible · on April 3, 2022

> However, according to the status page everything should be operational.

Seems like a recurring theme, and not even with Reddit in particular. Why is it so common that I as an end user will notice a problem before whatever system is in charge of the status page does?

lanna · on April 3, 2022

> Why is it so common that I as an end user will notice a problem before whatever system is in charge of the status page does?

Survival bias: only when you notice a problem before the system in charge of the status page does, is that you notice it. When you don't, you don't notice it.

NaturalPhallacy · on April 3, 2022

This happens all the time with amazon too. So often someone created this: https://stop.lying.cloud/

chimpansteve · on April 3, 2022

The status page is now showing some dramatic drops in everything but error rates, which are through the roof.

It's not just old.reddit either, its the new abomination too

thrdbndndn · on April 3, 2022

At least "System Metrics" shows something abnormal. No idea what these bar charts are doing if they don't show such major outage.

NaturalPhallacy · on April 3, 2022

Looks like all of it is down: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/reddit.com.html

i67vw3 · on April 3, 2022

Reddit proxy instances like teddit are also down, meaning not only old.reddit.com but the whole thing is experiencing problems.

2Gkashmiri · on April 3, 2022

it must be all the user trying to use bots on r/place, just like i am attempting

the_common_man · on April 3, 2022

oh dear, i think this is a ploy to make us all switch to the new site. end of reddit for me, if they kill old.reddit.com

shabier · on April 3, 2022

The new site doesn't work either. I'm assuming that it's due to the traffic to r/places

i67vw3 · on April 3, 2022

What's with r/places? I went to the subreddit to see what it is as it was mentioned too many times. It just have some images with flags and whatnot.

And there is no proper description for the whole subreddit.

troxwalt · on April 3, 2022

It is quite an amazing idea. Every five minutes a user can place one single colors pixel in the canvas. Subreddits and other groups coordinate and make some interesting pixel art. Worth following imo.

NaturalPhallacy · on April 3, 2022

It was almost immediately ruined by bots the first time.

Is that still happening?

I mostly use Apollo so I can't even see it.

shabier · on April 3, 2022

> It just have some images with flags and whatnot.

That's basically it, users can color a tile every 15 minutes or so. The reddit Twitter page posts some of the cool stuff if you're into that

chimpansteve · on April 3, 2022

::looks suspiciously at fastly again::