Reddit was down for over two hours

Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by jswny on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:41PM (#21011212)

They also have very frequent cases where the site throws up an error page or is completely unreachable because it is under heavy load. I can't think of another major social network that has those problems on a weekly basis either.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by fragmede on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:53PM (#21011308)

Not recently, but Twitter's "fail whale" became famous due to problems Twitter had under heavy load.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by cepp on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:58PM (#21011359)

I still regularly see Reddit failures every week.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by sb057 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @07:43PM (#21011721)

That was also a decade ago.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Stevvo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:41AM (#21014447)

I regularly get the fail whale on mobile, but I suspect it's an intentional dark pattern to push you into the mobile app rather than an engineering issue.

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