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No other website of major size is as unreliable as reddit. In over 10 years of usage I've had noticeable facebook downtime only _once_. Meanwhile reddit seems have a major outage at least yearly and minor unavailability on an hourly basis. Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck. Are they incompetent?

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> Even when they're not down, it's slow as fuck.

Have you tried https://old.reddit.com ? I find the main site is hella slow due to the way they use JS on it, and load the page content separately from the layout. But the old site where the content is served in-line is fine. The servers are plenty fast enough; it's just the dynamic architecture of the main site is totally busted.

Old Reddit is the only way I'll use Reddit. So much faster. I like the information density better, too.

Facebook has probably 10x the employees and resources of reddit, this is a ridiculous comparison

edit: more like 35x actually

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