Reddit Degraded Performance

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by danielg0 • 5 years ago

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mdoms• 5 years ago

Seems like a lot of services are having trouble today.

- Hacker News

- Reddit

- Azure

- (edit) Github actions

In the past couple of hours.

jorl17• 5 years ago

Someone must have tripped over a couple of wires back in China!

EDIT: Clearly, I failed to make it obvious, but I meant this as a joke. I don't believe our traffic is "hubbed" or affected by China in any way whatsoever...

Hammershaft4• 5 years ago

haha I laughed

magicalhippo• 5 years ago

It's Monday, we've all been there...

BrissyCoder• 5 years ago

Ahem... Tuesday

danaliv• 5 years ago

I blame DST.

JacobSuperslav• 5 years ago

yahoo finance api was down today

leesalminen• 5 years ago

Gitlab earlier this morning, too.

mike_d• 5 years ago

Confirms my theory that Azure runs on top of Reddit.

de6u99er2• 5 years ago

Could all be related to something like this.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-network-security-holes-f...

cperciva• 5 years ago

Doesn't HN run on FreeBSD? It always used to.

radicalcentrist• 5 years ago

Beware the Ides of March.

agumonkey• 5 years ago

after ovh fire, it's not a good month for web backends it seems

de6u99er2• 5 years ago

I had performance issues with YouTube and Netflix yesterday, and GitLab had ussues recently.

Maybe everybody is patching something similar at the moment.

linux2647• 5 years ago

DST bugs?

Havoc• 5 years ago

Honestly I rarely even notice. It’s pretty slow & patchy on a good day

axaxs• 5 years ago

I honestly wonder what goes on behind Reddit. It's been pretty terrible since the beginning. I don't mean to be insulting to anyone in particular, I know how projects go, and I love the site. But speedy or well done, it is not.

ngokevin3• 5 years ago

There's no question they've sabotaged their webapp in favor of the app where there's no adblock and they can send push notifications for profit. Been a user since 2009 and still use a ton for everything, but it's quickly grown more painful by the day.

peterlk• 5 years ago

One of my favorite quotes because it is so hard for me to swallow

People will choose convenience over quality any day

- CEO of iHeart Media

I am neither a fan of iHeart Media nor that idea, but I think it may be correct. If true, an explanation for Reddit's poor quality is that they made media consumption convenient, and user hostile behavior goes unpunished because there is nowhere else as convenient as reddit.

takeda2• 5 years ago

I think it's fault of the "new" (well hardly new anymore) UI. I use old.reddit.com with an AddOn to my browser to always redirect to it and the site is as responsive as HN.

pathless• 5 years ago

The redesign is terrible. It looks nicer, but ultimately it behaves terribly. It loses connection with reddit all the time, makes my PC fan speed up to a volume that not even games can achieve, and is downright just behaviorally bizarre. Videos stop and start randomly, or refuse to buffer. Images are too big and stick out of frames sometimes, things take 10+ seconds to load even if the rest of the page loaded just fine.

I switch the URL to old.reddit and poof! Performance problems are magically gone.

jjice• 5 years ago

The performance is awful. If they just did a site wide CSS and HTML makeover, that would've been fine. But they somehow crammed enough JS in there to make my computer beg for mercy.

Hammershaft4• 5 years ago

It is atrocious. Reinforces every possible stereotype about web apps. One tab of the reddit redesign after scrolling will eat more memory and cpu then most AAA games on my rig.

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