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Wonder if some of their critical infra got hit by a power outage?[0]

Really a power outage shouldn't cause this as backups and generators...but maybe something was overlooked?

Guess we will just have to wait and see what the postmortem says.

[0]: Context: https://poweroutage.us/

EDIT: Seems like a no based on the latest update.

> Identified - We've identified an internal systems issue and are working to determine a fix.

Is reddit on-prem or in the cloud? If in the cloud, AWS/GCE have tons of redundancy in power, internet connectivity, etc.

If I recall correctly they're in the cloud

They moved to AWS early early. There used to be an old picture of someone (iirc Alexis) joking about shutting down the data center they were in, and hosing Twitter in the process. Would have been 2008-9 era

Except AWS is experiencing issues now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157388

Way to push your biases.

The most affected part of California is central: https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california

It's because they currently have floods there.

Reddit runs on AWS and they don't have region in central CA so it's obvious whatever they are experiencing is unrelated.

> The most affected part of California is central:

> Reddit runs on AWS and they don't have region in central CA so it's obvious whatever they are experiencing is unrelated.

Reddit also uses fastly for their CDN. Considering the error message for the vast majority of this was (still is) "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers" it made me look at the CDN connection... which has multiple DCs in San Jose... You know, the "most affected part of California."

> Way to push your biases.

Nah, no bias. Just following the sites goal.

> On-Topic: (...) If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Hence why I said "Wonder if" not "they must have."

Reddit is down at least once a week, but this is certainly a different error message than normal: "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers". Normally it's just something vague like "Oops, something went wrong".

I'm also amused at the possible explanation that they might have simply improved their error messages, causing us to assume this is a different sort of outage than usual.

I've seen this one plenty of times.

I've been simply unable to connect at all.

HN is having issues as well...

From my end, European sites load quickly.

I'm wondering if Hackernews is just getting extra load since Reddit is down.

HN, the place where one goes to see if a big tech site is actually down.

Sample size of 1 but I came to HN right now specifically to look for the discussion on this.

I feel called out since I opened up HN as Reddit wasn’t loading

Looks like I'll have to get back to work

I had just changed my DNS settings when I tried Reddit and it didn't work and then tried HN and it was really really slow. I was starting to think there was something wrong with my DNS change until I saw this post and comment.

This seems to be related to GPT-4 and other big stories all landing today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157344

Hackernews is crawling also. How am I to procrastinate?!

the lights are flashing from their screens and the bunnies is still furiously tapping their paddles in their cages meanwhile the treats stoppeth for no matter how many times paw goes to button there are not more treats to be had.

the experiment is over.

It'll keep until tomorrow.

It's a good chance to ponder how or where I will waste time once Reddit is ruined somehow.

Hah! I’m sitting here waiting for eye surgery and figured it was slow hospital wifi. You’re right, though. Other sites are quick!

If someone screws up and kills me, HN will be the last thing I remember. ;-)

FWIW the usual outcome of messing up eye surgery is blindness, not death. Good luck! :)

In that case, the last thing they’ll remember is that lovely orange banner. For the rest of their lives.

Imagine going blind and only being able to recall your loved ones’ faces, and the header of your favorite website.

Depends on how bad the surgeon and anaesthetist messes up, really.

All the best! Please post here with a follow-up when you're feeling well enough to do so :)

Shilling my web game: redactle-unlimited.com A redacted wikipedia article is displayed and you must uncover the title. It's inspired by redactle.com which has been offline for a couple weeks.

With all the tech layoffs they can get some SREs? Gotta be online to sell ads for your IPO.

I can't link to it right now since the link is on reddit, but it's kinda funny timing with the rant one of their recruiters did on LinkedIn over the weekend

what was the gist of it?

It was a screenshotted post on r/LinkedInLunatics about how unqualified 99% of the candidates at Reddit are, and how it should be illegal to apply for a job if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications. There was also a subplot to the rant that blamed the dearth of qualified candidates on 'Tik Tok Thots' (paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact demeaning term the author used to objectify female tiktok users)

Oh hah that's funny, I applied there a couple weeks haven't heard anything of course. Figured it would be something like that lol

I know we all don't like social media but it does provide some gems haha

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/11q70iv/h...

People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.

Is there a directory of known AI forum-posting bots? Would be interesting to see what uses they’re being put to / what they’re tuned to talk about.

They have flame wars all the time.

There’s disparate efforts to identify, out, and ban these bots. So probably not, and if there is is likely too stale to be good for anything but academic endeavors.

r/bottesting r/testingground4bots

"Productivity jumps by unexpected 2.3% in Q1: NBER"

"'We don't know where it's coming from', said Jasper Bruch, economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. 'It's an outlier, but other indicators have held steady. Your guess is as good as mine.' The Federal Reserve did not comment."

Someone misconfigured a switch at a major node again?

Wonder if it's related to the AWS issues? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35157388

A major site being hard down for 1hr+ and everyone just shrugs and says it happens... unless it's Twitter, in which case it's a harbinger of the company dying and how this shouldn't happen to major sites.

Reddit wasn't recently bought by someone who fired 80% of the staff.

DNS apocalypse incoming

I had a long post and it said "please fix the identified issues" when there weren't any.

Time to get back to work...

For me reddit.com is alive and well but old.reddit.com has CDN issues.

new.reddit.com loads but has a bunch of error messages where the posts should be on my end

Probably for the best.

Where the hell am I going to talk about bad litrpg's?

any recs?

You want recs for bad ones?

Well even if one belives there is such a thing as a good litrpg, anyone who likes the genre is going to have read those already. So yeah any litrpg connoisseur is going to be looking for recommended bad ones.

Have this then:

Reject Humanity, Return to Monke

https://www.webnovel.com/book/reject-humanity-return-to-monk...

Parts are NSFW but then you (or the parent poster) did ask for bad ones...

Ah hah, the classics first

He who fights with Monsters (edgelord Australian goes brr)

Defiance of the Fall (axe man goes brr)

Primal Hunter (archer goes brr)

Azarinth Healer (lady who punches goes brr)

There's probably about four months of continuous reading involved in the above and only Azarinth is actually finished, the others have no end in sight.

I am legally obliged at this point to ask have you read Cradle?

Cradle is not litrpg, but everyone likes it and those who don't are considered to be strange lepers (assuming you enjoy litrpg or progression fantasy at all)

Other honourable mentions..

Mother Of Learning

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Thanks! I have not yet read Cradle but often see it recommended.

I haven't explored litrpgs much yet, but I had a great time with Worm and it seems like they live in a similar space. Will check some of these out!

Top Tip: Nearly everything in the genre and all the books I mentioned are in kindle unlimited. It costs $10 a month (or about that) and you can download and read as much as you want that's on the service.

If you find something you like and plan to keep reading, it's well worth the cost.

There are ones that aren't?

The litrpg readership accepts that they're all objectively "bad", they just ignore that fact and keep reading. Then wish the authors could pump out more than 1500 words per day so they could have even more.

IMO Worth the Candle (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle) is the one exception.

old.reddit.com is back online, new and the app is still down.

Is Source 2 out?

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