[denysonique]

Since various tech layoffs I noticed major sites either being slower to browse or experiencing outages more often.

[Gigachad]

Reddit used to go down at least once a week. It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years.

[bluescrn]

> It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years.

They eventually managed to ban enough subreddits/users to reach a state of reliablity...

[8note]

They kept all of the high volume subreddits though.

Are you proposing that subreddits full of slurs are harder for the server to return as a byte-string?

[capableweb]

Maybe subreddits full of slurs creates more reported content, and reddit never got to optimize the tables containing the reports, so if things gets more reported, database gets slower.

Not really, but fun to imagine.

[waltbosz]

Is the down time caused because they laid-off the employees that kept the servers up, or is it caused by an influx of more users who find themselves with loads of free time.

[MonkeyMalarky]

Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build? Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months too.

[mikhmha]

I’ve actually noticed this as well. I’m not sure if it’s all in my head.

All the big sites seem to load slower and there seems to be more tracking/bloat going on in the background. I think they are desperate for revenue and finally pulling out all the stops. I unfortunately can’t give any concrete examples of this.

[8note]

Old.reddit.com still loads plenty fast.

Sites get slow as they need to make more round trips before showing useful stuff

[postalrat]

I'm sure you aren't the only person that would want to see that.