It's funny how someone always posts about these incidents on HN, considering this is a rather mundane event.

I suspect HN gets an influx of readers the instant Reddit goes down, one of them being me.

Is it mundane? It's been down for nearly an hour.

Reddit is down a lot, it’s almost a injoke on Reddit.

Not for an hour. This is unusual.

Scrolling through their uptime history, it looks like this was the biggest incident in 3 years, perhaps longer,

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=14

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=16

I looked through the whole thing back to 2011/09 and there was never more than a "6 component partial outage". Only a few "1 component major outage":

https://www.redditstatus.com/uptime?page=26

The one just now was a "7 component major outage". Annoyingly, these links are going to be inaccurate in the future since they're paged from the present date.

Reddit being down is a running joke since day one. I feel like us old timers just expect it

Reddit used to go down all the time but in the last 3 years it has been very stable and hardly ever goes down.

Very likely to see a post-mortem for the incident show up right here on HN :)

We need to make a subreddit for this

I am struggling to understand why there needs to be an item on this site when something like Reddit is down. I don't need to know about this.

If I want to go to reddit, I go. If it's down, I notice this easily, and I say to myself "I guess it's down", and then I move on with my life.

If I don't visit the site while it is down, do I need to know that it is down? No. I do not. If I (attempt to) visit the site while it is down, the very nature of attempting to visit a site that is down will inform me that the site is down. Under no circumstances do I need, or want, a HN post, or a post on any other site, telling me of such a thing.

Later in-depth analyses of what caused the outage are welcome, of course, because those contain information that I will not have already obtained on my own.

Are you confused that why a people of a certain website (HN) have upvoted an article about another certain website that you don't have interest in?

Half the content on this website is stuff that doesn't interest me, but that's the nature of crowd sourcing what interests people.

So? Reddit is frequently down.

Very frequently. Way more than should be acceptable for the 19th most visited site on the net.

Can someone tell me how Reddit is down so much compared to other sites. It seems like it is down for an hour every other week.

They have never placed any value on engineering, have a founder leading the engineering effort who is a complete buffoon and pay 30-50% less than similar silicon valley enterprises. It's not really much of a mystery at all why they are down so much.

Compared to other social media sites, maybe because if there is flashpoint, everyone on the site can get funneled towards it? On Facebook or Twitter you wouldn't find everyone commenting on the same "thread".

Does reddit do post mortems? If it did then we might have a clue.

Cue the flood of “let’s hope it stays this way” comments.

oh no, i wont be able to infinitely scroll through cat pictures and r/wtf. much bigger fish maybe it’s a good thing

I usually go on Reddit to hear myself type about programming and politics. Now you people get to hear it

If I had to guess maybe finally banning that anti-vax/mask sub made someone do a ddos?

(they were "brigading" other subs)

or maybe something more basic

https://www.redditstatus.com/

It was quarantined not banned.

For non-cached content, sure?

All you have to do is exhaust enough database fetching and rendering on the backend for non-cached content and even amazon goes down (ie. black friday downtime).

It would take an impressive amount of resources but who knows what blackhatters are selling these days.

You'd need to use logged in accounts to get uncached content, so wouldn't you be burning through a lot of accounts to do it? Seems like something you could only do once in awhile. Doesn't seem worth it for a simple quarantining of a sub.