[ipnon]

Anyone willing to put a price on 1 hour and 14 minutes of Reddit downtime? I would guess this cost less than a $1,000,000 USD but more than $100,000.

[gberger]

According to [], they had $119M revenue in 2019. That's about $14k/h.

[] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...

[txcwpalpha]

Good find, although that would assume that every hour of the year is equally contributing to revenue. In reality I would think that an hour-long outage in the morning as everyone in N. America (still the largest percentage of reddit users) is reading reddit while waking up/drinking coffee is probably more costly than an hour-long outage while most of those users are asleep.

[ipnon]

My first exposure to empty set citations

[krilly]

{} would at least be consistent with python string substitution, but [] doesn't make much sense to me

[kazagistar]

Certainly negative cost for society, given all the freed up time.