Reddit is experiencing outages again
Reddit is experiencing outages again
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Created my account yesterday because of this!
Been meaning to migrate to Lemmy for a while and seemed like the push I needed
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Welcome! We have beans. I'm still not sure why.
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Why would we not?
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good
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Haha! Screw you spez!
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I swear to god, lemm.ee's server has been more reliable for me than reddit's ever was
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I miss the good old days when reddit admins still pretended to be part of the community. Anybody remember the "when this post is [x hours old] reddit will go down for [xyz]" posts? Then the admins were in the thread cracking jokes with everyone about the fact that their servers were powered by hamster wheels and they couldn't afford a programmer? Oh how the times have changed...
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The admins also liked those days better than current times, I'm sure. It's just a money issue. Reddit wasn't profitable back than (still isn't, I think), so it needed an investor. An investor watch it's money back eventually, so you're gonna have to make changes. Often times those changes suck
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I was having trouble with the Stealth app and old.reddit around that time, but "new" reddit was working just fine. Having kinda mixed feelings that it was just a temporary outage and they didn't finally nuke old.reddit.
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I was thinking they just killed old.
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The bots are complaining!
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On a friday evening/night in the US? lol. Not exactly peak hours. I wonder what stupid shit they pushed to prod.
As a side note, I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don't exist here on Lemmy. But I was having intermittent issues a few hours before reddit actually went dark.
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I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don't exist here on Lemmy.
Why not make 'em? That's what I did. Try to get away from Reddit completely by recreating your favorite subs as communities here. I'm really glad I'm on here and hope we can continue to grow this replacement.
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Why not make 'em? That’s what I did.
The honest answer is, I was a reddit mod for 12 years. I gradually built my community up from nothing to just under 150k users when I quit, which was actually really impressive for my niche sport. I even paid money out of my pocket to host monthly contests in the early days because I cared and it was a simple way to bring people to the sub from other places on the internet...
But the API fiasco on reddit was my wake up call... I really should've seen the writing on the wall much sooner. But I didn't... So I have no interest in managing communities anymore. It's a largely thankless task and the work never ends. I truly appreciate anyone willing to step up to create/mod communities on lemmy but count me out. I'm going to contribute by posting interesting articles to relevant communities whenever possible - but that's as far as I'm willing to go these days. I burned out.
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