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BREAKING: REDDIT IS DOWN (imgur.com)

submitted 2 years ago by SeeStars@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Some possibilities:

Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.

[-] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Using Occam's Razor, I'd bet on the last option.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Or the third.

[-] ghoonrhed@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

You'd be right. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[-] Album@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago

Reddit uses AWS, not cloudflare.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 1 points 2 years ago

Cloudflare is a reverse proxy service, many services are hosted through Cloudflare on other hosting providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, DO, etc.

Reddit appears to use Fastly, but I could be wrong there. They used to use Cloudflare in combination with the rest of their infra

[-] neal@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Or they took it offline to "hide" all the blacked out subreddits. Some had images about the third party apps as their only post, which was on the front page. By going offline it makes it seem like more of a technical issue rather than a protest.

[-] main_water@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I’d guess that with so many top subs going dark, the mixing algorithm needs to dig deeper and it’s not tuned for that. These algorithms are hard to get right at Reddit’s scale.

As an example to populate the frontpage or /r/all it might would need to scan all posts from the private subs before even getting a sizeable amount of candidate posts from the public ones to rank. Then the public subs won’t be in cache nor will caching help as much on those long tail subreddits. Not being in cache means more hits to the DB and that’s going to affect nearly all requests to Reddit.