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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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