Reddit partial outage

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by danielcorin • 8 years ago

39 43 8 years ago

reddit.statuspage.io

https://voat.co/ is still running. Similar design but different people. That site could use some love.

Edit: People seem to think that I would endorse the things that are posted on voat. I do not. But I do endorse free speech even if it means that others express things I don't agree with or wouldn't want to hear. Voat does so, too. You can discuss your topics and views on voat. If nice people gain the majority the ugliness will have to stay in the dark corners.

distantsounds• 8 years ago

ah yes, an alternative whose front page is currently filled with pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and everyone's favorite past-time, closeted racism

just the different i was looking for!

suby• 8 years ago

I would say its often open racism on that site. It's a shame the community is so awful, as the site looked promising early on and we need a viable alternative to reddit.

std_throwaway5• 8 years ago

Voat once was very similar to reddit of the past before hoards of reddit users were driven away by strict moderation policies and found refuge in the free speech advocating site that voat is. It reflects what those think who are not allowed to speak on reddit.

Sadly, that beautiful garden is now overgrown by heaps of ugly weeds and you have to dig deep to find the nuggets.

omio• 8 years ago

Wow I didn't know it turned out so bad. Even then reddit isn't much better either. Damn the internet has turned into a cesspool or maybe I don't remember it was a cesspool 20 years ago too.

steveeq14• 8 years ago

Thats more of a reflection of our society than reddit itself.

s_kilk• 8 years ago

closeted

marsrover• 8 years ago

I liked Voat in the beginning. Then it became 4chan.

Quequau• 8 years ago

It's hardly surprising given how many truly repugnant people on Reddit were promoting Voat as an alternative to Reddit for the subreddits that were so bad that even Reddit wouldn't tolerate them.

thosakwe3• 8 years ago

Voat is to Reddit, what Gab is to Twitter.

That is to say, a site that prides itself on "free speech," but in reality makes itself the home of the same cesspool that produces the alt-right, incels, 4chan, and whatever hairdo Richard Spencer is wearing right now.

It's sad, though. It had a lot of potential as a Reddit alternative.

stefano• 8 years ago

Sadly, many subreddits are slowly going down that path too.

diminoten• 8 years ago

I'm a big fan of free speech as a philosophy, but I also am practical enough to understand a bit about how hateful culture festers, spreads, and grows when allowed to thrive online, and honestly I'm at a loss for how I'd reconcile these two concepts.

What's the current state of the art for curbing the growth of hate groups while still providing a platform for honest and free discussion? We all probably have some ideas on how we'd give it a shot, but I wonder if there are one, or a few common themes.

CedarMadness• 8 years ago

It's really the natural outcome of any "X Alternative" site. Anyone that gets banned from X goes to the alternative, and anyone else has no reason to go, because X still works for them. So X Alternative fills up with horrible users, and even more nobody wants to go there.

jstanley4• 8 years ago

a community platform where you can have your say. No censorship.

And yet:

Error 1008 Access denied
What happened?
The owner of this website (voat.co) has banned your IP address.

Nadya3• 8 years ago

Before your edit to remove the I.P address: 146.185.172.196.

Q: Using DigitalOcean to host a VPN?

Bans still happen for abuse/spam and banning well-known VPS/Server/Cloud Providers isn't all that uncommon when it becomes an issue. This happens on every platform, otherwise there wouldn't be a platform. Voat has experienced many DDOS attacks in its days - so it wouldn't be surprising if some of the attacks originated from a VPS Provider and got the IP range banned.

_emacsomancer_• 8 years ago

There's a list of reddit alternatives at (where else?) Reddit: https://redd.it/8585ox

Raddle seems to be the inverse of Voat

lainon• 8 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/ is still running. Similar design but different people. That site could use some love.

snuxoll• 8 years ago

Well, time to get some actual work done folks.

Yet here I am on HN.

spike021• 8 years ago

Reddit's been running pretty awful in general lately.

Ever since the UI update the website loses track of if I'm logged in from page to page. Some pages load in the old format, some in the new. It's completely ridiculous.

ehnto• 8 years ago

I had the same experience. It throws a welcome splash on every page load. Very annoying, basic stuff. Add a cookie, job done.

andrei_says_• 8 years ago

I got in the habit of typing old.reddit.com. Much much better, especially with RES.

dpedu• 8 years ago

I've stuck with old.reddit.com for now. Opinions on the redesign aside, it does not exhibit any of the issues mentioned here.

deskamess• 8 years ago

If you are not logged in, it defaults to the big blocky, whitespace filled, media heavy new UI. There is no longer a sense of a compact text website. If you are logged in, you can get the old look.

My MacBookPro (2010) now crashes frequently when using the new UI on subreddits that have a good percentage of videos - not sure why. Otherwise, it has been a reliable machine even for streaming.

pkaye• 8 years ago

Never realized their "request rate" is very cyclical with night and day. Does that mean mostly US (or north american time zone) users mostly?

Elect2• 8 years ago

error code: 503. Seems not a CDN issue. Where does Reddit hosted?

Reddit partial outage

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