I went into the office today because I had an in-person meeting in the morning. Then I had some physical work (IT inventory/auditing) I had to do that took a few hrs. But by around 2pm, I was...
I went into the office today because I had an in-person meeting in the morning. Then I had some physical work (IT inventory/auditing) I had to do that took a few hrs. But by around 2pm, I was ready to chill a bit and kinda ride the day out. So I went to reddit. And it was down.
So I did a bit more work and went back to reddit. Still down.
I checked a couple more times and redditstatus.com said it was a major outage.
I actually had to work the whole day! It was terrible! Thanks, reddit.
Reddit has been down for over three hours. Longest I’ve ever seen. Blamed on an internal systems issue, with a fix in the process of being deployed, but they’ve said it could take awhile. Any...
Reddit has been down for over three hours. Longest I’ve ever seen. Blamed on an internal systems issue, with a fix in the process of being deployed, but they’ve said it could take awhile.
To be fair, my reddit account is over 15 years old, but 3 hours is nothing compared to how it has been in the past. I seem to recall, but obviously can't search for it right now, outages that...
Reddit has been down for over three hours. Longest I’ve ever seen.
To be fair, my reddit account is over 15 years old, but 3 hours is nothing compared to how it has been in the past. I seem to recall, but obviously can't search for it right now, outages that lasted long enough that some users later reported to having a "reddit downtime" surprise pregnancy as they found other ways to fill their time.
Not only is /r/downtimebananas still around, it's apparently still active, which I find faintly hilarious. But yeah, there was an extended period—probably a couple years?—where I saw that downtime...
Not only is /r/downtimebananas still around, it's apparently still active, which I find faintly hilarious. But yeah, there was an extended period—probably a couple years?—where I saw that downtime page somewhere between weekly and monthly.
Time to breath a heavy sigh and actually get some work done. sigh
I'm subbed to /r/downtimebananas, and was completely unaware that there was an outage yesterday until i was browsing this morning and a bunch of [A]dmin posts were in my feed. Which was an amusing...
I'm subbed to /r/downtimebananas, and was completely unaware that there was an outage yesterday until i was browsing this morning and a bunch of [A]dmin posts were in my feed. Which was an amusing way to find out.
Giggity. And yeah, my account is only about eight years old, so I wouldn’t be surprised that 2008 Reddit would’ve had longer outages. That said, it’s >current year, for such a big site an outage...
Giggity. And yeah, my account is only about eight years old, so I wouldn’t be surprised that 2008 Reddit would’ve had longer outages. That said, it’s >current year, for such a big site an outage of more than a few minutes is unusual.
Even as recently as the mid 2010s I remember it being down several times a week for 20-60 minutes at a time. But yea, this is probably their longest outage in recent memory.
Even as recently as the mid 2010s I remember it being down several times a week for 20-60 minutes at a time. But yea, this is probably their longest outage in recent memory.
I can't recall any outage that has been this long and I've been using Reddit for twelve years. Usually they are an hour in length but still have sporadic availability. Most often just related to...
I can't recall any outage that has been this long and I've been using Reddit for twelve years. Usually they are an hour in length but still have sporadic availability. Most often just related to an auxiliary system like comments being unavailable.
This is up there, but there have been a few instances where it's been down longer. https://hoffa.medium.com/reddit-uptime-2008-2016-bigquery-b3d7b11046e0
This is up there, but there have been a few instances where it's been down longer.
2008
The white pixels show minutes when reddit got zero comments. The longer the line, the longer reddit was down — with the longest period being around 5 hours!
Minutes down: 1586.
2009
The longest period of downtime we can see here is more than 7 hours during May.
Minutes down: 1079.
2010
This was the year that reddit migrated their servers to AWS. Here they explain why reddit was down 71 minutes in March.
Minutes down: 3004.
2011
In March reddit was down for more than 6 hours. The post-mortem is not on the internet anymore, but the comments show many redditors being skeptic of ‘the cloud’.
Worse days were coming ahead, as in April AWS took down many websites for more than 24 hours — including reddit.
It's back up for me, and has been for about 10 minutes now. And based on the latest status update, it looks like they implemented a fix about 15 min ago. It may take a little bit longer for all...
It's back up for me, and has been for about 10 minutes now. And based on the latest status update, it looks like they implemented a fix about 15 min ago. It may take a little bit longer for all the instances to spin up though.
I went into the office today because I had an in-person meeting in the morning. Then I had some physical work (IT inventory/auditing) I had to do that took a few hrs. But by around 2pm, I was ready to chill a bit and kinda ride the day out. So I went to reddit. And it was down.
So I did a bit more work and went back to reddit. Still down.
I checked a couple more times and redditstatus.com said it was a major outage.
I actually had to work the whole day! It was terrible! Thanks, reddit.
/s obviously.
Reddit has been down for over three hours. Longest I’ve ever seen. Blamed on an internal systems issue, with a fix in the process of being deployed, but they’ve said it could take awhile.
Any speculation as to what the cause is?
To be fair, my reddit account is over 15 years old, but 3 hours is nothing compared to how it has been in the past. I seem to recall, but obviously can't search for it right now, outages that lasted long enough that some users later reported to having a "reddit downtime" surprise pregnancy as they found other ways to fill their time.
It also used to go down so frequently they even had a special landing page with interesting links to keep you busy while they fixed the issue. :P
Not only is /r/downtimebananas still around, it's apparently still active, which I find faintly hilarious. But yeah, there was an extended period—probably a couple years?—where I saw that downtime page somewhere between weekly and monthly.
Time to breath a heavy sigh and actually get some work done. sigh
I'm subbed to /r/downtimebananas, and was completely unaware that there was an outage yesterday until i was browsing this morning and a bunch of [A]dmin posts were in my feed. Which was an amusing way to find out.
That is a detail of "old" reddit that I haven't thought about in some time. It was a nice QoL feature when reddit was down.
I remember the "good old days" when Reddit and Twitter would crash every time there was an Apple event.
Giggity. And yeah, my account is only about eight years old, so I wouldn’t be surprised that 2008 Reddit would’ve had longer outages. That said, it’s >current year, for such a big site an outage of more than a few minutes is unusual.
Even as recently as the mid 2010s I remember it being down several times a week for 20-60 minutes at a time. But yea, this is probably their longest outage in recent memory.
I can't recall any outage that has been this long and I've been using Reddit for twelve years. Usually they are an hour in length but still have sporadic availability. Most often just related to an auxiliary system like comments being unavailable.
This is up there, but there have been a few instances where it's been down longer.
https://hoffa.medium.com/reddit-uptime-2008-2016-bigquery-b3d7b11046e0
Reddit's been down for quite a bit of time now. Genuinely spent the last two hours playing Wolcen, log off and it's still down.
It's back up for me, and has been for about 10 minutes now. And based on the latest status update, it looks like they implemented a fix about 15 min ago. It may take a little bit longer for all the instances to spin up though.