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Re:Reddit is currently down by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:52PM (#35160367)
I noticed Hacker News being slow at roughly the same time that Reddit went down, though that's probably a coincidence.
Re:Reddit is currently down by dabber on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:20PM (#35160870)
dang commented on this in the GPT thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344

>All: our poor server is smoking today* so I've had to reduce the page size of comments. There are already a thousand comments in this thread but if you want to read more than a few dozen you'll need to page through them by clicking the More link at the bottom. I apologize!

>Also, if you're cool with read-only access, just log out and all will be fast again.

>* yes, HN still runs on one core, at least the part that serves logged-in requests, and yes this will all get better someday...it kills me that this isn't done yet but one day you will all see

Re:Reddit is currently down by mishac on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:11PM (#35160714)
Or a causal thing....reddit being down means that some number of people switch to hackernews to pass time.
Re:Reddit is currently down by elromulous on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @07:28PM (#35161008)
Likely because people who browse both sites are now more likely to browse hn.