Reddit Down: Community Site Experiencing Widespread Errors

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 months ago

Reddit Down: Community Site Experiencing Widespread Errors

orangeNgreen@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Oh no!

…anyway.

PunnyName@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Exactly my thoughts.

4 months ago

lemmy.world crashing in 3, 2…

GrundlButter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 months ago

It’s been broken since the 3rd party apps debacle. Thanks for fucking up the site out of pure greed, you self righteous cunts. If Swartz were alive today, he’d kill himself again over what they did to reddit.

Balrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 months ago

Reminds me of the good old days.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Someone spilled coffee on their server. /s

foggy@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

418 I AM A TEAPOT

FancyLad @lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Reddit is the new Digg and Lemmy is the new reddit, which means we will one day be the new Digg 😨

Cenotaph@mander.xyz · 4 months ago

Better ditch Lemmy and start your own app now to stay ahead of the curve

NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Lemmy in NOT the new reddit. It has nowhere near the traffic or niche communities that reddit does. We are our own little community of defectors, but Lemmy is currently not reddit and I have my doubts it will pick up in traffic ever. Which is ok too, I guess.

JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee · 4 months ago

Oh no, how will the bots function without reddit? Where are the outrage trolls going to scream into the void?

Oh well, not my dumpster fire, not my problem. It is quite funny though.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Damnit, it’s back. It was good while it lasted.

t�m@lemmy.ml · 4 months ago

Soon lemmy.ml will spike again during this outage

gt24@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Reddit, about yesterday, started to implement a change…

They have the old Reddit interface and then the one that replaced it (“new Reddit”) and the current interface you see on Reddit replaced that. People don’t like the most recent interface iteration but had the option to go to “new Reddit” or “old Reddit” by vising the appropriate links.

Notably, each newer interface seems to be more stressful for the servers to run. Still, likely a decent amount of folks don’t like the newest interface so likely the load balances out.

Yesterday though, they “pulled the lever” and “new Reddit” is no more. (This was announced about a month ago at this link but they only got around to doing it yesterday.) Those people trying to access “new Reddit” are redirected to the latest interface. You have the option to use the oldest Reddit interface or the newest one but not the “new Reddit” one. Since the latest interface seemed to use the most server resources before, it is interesting how Reddit seemed to have their severs overloaded a bit when they made the switchover.

On Reddit, people have been upset in /r/help that this has happened but Reddit will likely continue on with this change anyway. Old Reddit will continue to be supported (at least for now anyway).