Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by nullfield on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:44AM
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Well, BaconReader is likely dead at the end of the month with their API changes (along with Apollo, Sync, Reddit Is Fun, etc.)
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by 29083011397778 on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:55PM
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Little late, but I think I see how we have such different experiences. Assuming other comments are right, and Reddit's pulling pretty much entirely from cache, you probably just scroll longer than I do - long enough to run out of the first ~1000 (cached) posts, and hit uncached items.
You'd get timeouts, and I'd never see them - despite being West Coast (Canada) as well. Or at least, that's my best guess so far.
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by nullityrofl on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:34AM
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Cache is probably a good guess. I don't do infinite scrolls but I do use Reddit mostly for hobby subreddits which aren't as popular and less likely to be in cache.
I imagine it probably has some to do with specific geography as well. Cloudflare will proxy back to nearest node and maybe some are better than others.
The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus
The "elevated error rates" always presents as an "oops, you broke reddit!" landing even on old.reddit. I imagine since it is an "elevated error rate" rather than a total outage that it might be localized to geo or some other kind of shard. I'm on the US West Coast, though, so I can't imagine I'm in a minority.
(Which is confirmed by the number of people responding to GP.)