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Is reddit becoming unusable?

5 points by hysterix ↗ HN
More and more I want to try to use reddit and the site is either slow and unusable, errors when I post, or general maintenance that takes the entire site down.

Is there an alternate to reddit as I'm growing pretty tired of this constant downtime.

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someotheridiot
Very frustrating. I just know there's a window of a few hrs in the morning (for me) in which its usable. The rest of the day I don't bother trying.
gritsscholar
I'm guessing you can't log in right now either.

I don't see much downtime. I use in the morning, say till 10 or so, and in evening after 6:30. When are all the downtimes? I'll hit a glitch from time to time but it's usually very short-lived.

I don't know - they finally got funds together to hire a couple or three folks, so maybe uptime will improve. Reddit users won't deal well with mucho downtime. Something will get done. If there is another comparable site or community, I haven't heard of it.

HardyLeung
I haven't experienced much downtime. I think I'm more weary of the quality of content than the down time. The quality of content has gone down quite a bit. There seems to be a group of topics/meme/techniques which dominates the top posts. You can even call them the "Strange Attractors" of Redditsphere.
_b8r0
If (when you can access reddit) you click on my reddits, at the bottom you'll see user subscriptions. If you unsubscribe from things like funny, pics, politics and so on, then pick reddits from http://subreddits.org/ and add them you can tune reddit to ditch some of the noise and boost the signal.
Zakuzaa
.. and it's down right now.
zeemonkee
I spend more time on HN these days for that reason. I actually prefer the content of Reddit (or at least in the specific subreddits I subscribe to) and it does have a better sense of humour and is less insular than HN. But HN loads faster and is rarely down. When I have just a few minutes in a work break that's important.
rymngh
because almost all of the visitors of digg went to reddit. they are having hard time handling the traffic.. they're very unfortunate that they sold it to conde nast.