Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rimunroe on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:29PM (#36296190)

My brother writes xkcd. In 2006 I was living at home while attending community college. At the time, his site was still hosted on the old HP desktop that used to sit in our family room and now sat in his old bedroom. One day I was playing in an unofficial Counter-Strike tournament when one of his comics (possibly "Pi Equals"[1]) got posted to either Slashdot or Boing Boing. My ping immediately went from probably ~25 ms to over 300, and then I timed out completely. I think it took us a couple hours to get our connection back, which I assume involved getting a new IP address.

Sadly, I didn't win the tournament.

[1] https://xkcd.com/10/

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by comprev on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:53PM (#36296675)

Please thank your brother! Some of his work has genuinely turned shit days into a positive ones over the years.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by rimunroe on Monday June 12, 2023 @10:36PM (#36304440)

Aw I’m glad to hear that

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by lamontcg on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:36PM (#36296300)

The best posts are sometimes found in the comments

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by Eisenstein on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:47PM (#36297830)

> My brother writes xkcd.

Username checks out.

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by tezgon on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:33PM (#36299654)

This strip had a profound change on my life after I read it for the first time. To this day it still means a lot to me. Thank you for sharing your story and to your brother for sharing his art.

https://xkcd.com/154/

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