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Reddit Is Experiencing Downtime (twitter.com)
19 points by deskglass 1725 days ago
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The speculation is always my favorite part of these things. Until we know, it could be anything - hacking, DDoS, bad engineering/sys admin, hardware failure, misconfiguration.
> bad engineering/sys admin

Doesn't it always boil down to this eventually?

No. It could be... *checks calendar* Deprecated Memory Rejection!
I hear sunspot activity is high!
> Identified - We've identified the source of an attack on our systems and have taken steps to mitigate. We're seeing systems recover, but are still in a degraded state.

https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/zt00pdljgnqn

Damn I am just seeing “not found” not even an error message or a page from the CDN. Must be something big.
Issue: Elevated error rates

Seems to be similar to the issues reported yesterday (blank page).

"Not Found", did a SysOp accidentally rm -rf?
Database decided to bounce outta there.
good