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Reddit Down, HTTP 503

34 points by camhart ↗ HN
Reddit down for anyone else? Getting 503's when I attempt to load it.

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jeremy_k
Yep, just crashed for me too
apidercondo
Gme related?
quickthrower2
Short sellers told reddit to halt?
sodality2
No, the price went up significantly so maybe people are flooding into r/wsb to see what's going on
giantg2
Nah, that's old news. Visit /r/ShortSqueeze or /r/ShortSqueezeArmy for their next target. And it wouldn't be hedge funds taking it down, because there's a Discord backup.
quickthrower2
Ha ha those subs merely need to name a target and job done, the shorters will self squeeze.
giantg2
I don't know. There aren't that many people in them.
27182818284
To be fair there were only like 250,000 subscribers to wallstreetbets or less when this started. Nowhere near the millions of subscribers WSB has now.
joshuapatel
There were over 2 million subscribers to WSB before this started.
27182818284
OK, I am looking at the graph again and I agree it is probably more like 2 million vs 9 million, yeah? That's still a lot more eyeballs later. I don't think WSB will ever be the same.
rcconf
GME is up 130% so I assume everyone headed over to Reddit to see what was happening.
rsuelzer
But their traffic didn't seem to spike. System metrics on https://www.redditstatus.com/#day don't show any increase in traffic.

I do notice all of their message backlogs haven't moved though, so who knows how accurate the request rate is.

rcconf
I noticed that too, but it's possible that there was an absurd spike of traffic that halted the entire pipeline and they never got tracked.

GME news travelled absurdly quickly. The two events lined up too well.

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Apreche
For one of the world's largest web sties, Reddit is down A LOT. It feels almost as bad as Twitter from the fail whale days. Frequently the site will be up, but you'll just get served a public homepage as if you weren't logged in. I feel embarrassed for their engineers. They have to start making site reliability priority #1.
mdoms
> They have to start making site reliability priority #1.

The downtime doesn't seem to be affecting their growth or revenue, so I guess not.