old.reddit.com works. Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets. Reddit being overwhelmed for a couple minutes seems like a daily occurance since forever, but wsb is really pushing their capacity at times.
My guess is they have a “thundering herd” problem when a few critical threads get lots of traffic, and any workaround is still manual because it’s delicate surgery. Pure speculation however, I’ve no inside knowledge.
> Probably an influx people checking /r/wallstreetbets.
There's only 300K people reading that subreddit at the moment. During the peak earlier in the month it was over a million. (edits, refreshed 4 mins later and it's just under 500K).
Also, for the conspiracy fans, notice that the majority of the rise (90 -> 199) has happened / is happening during post market hours when normal users (retail) cant do anything. 50->90 happened during normal trading hours.
I tried to determine this. And while I'm skeptical they brought the site down, there WAS a large uptick in comments on /r/wallstreetbets as the site went down. Still pulling in all the data from right before it went down.
People generally seemed to like Windows 3.11 → Windows 95 I guess? Also Mozilla Suite → Firefox (though some people still prefer the old way). It's just that when things are actually improved people tend to not remember them.
It must be. Wall Street bets grew to 8 million users after this whole GameStop thing, up from 1 million. They all probably hopped on to see what’s going on. Plus reddit is down more than any other website that popular that I know of.