Reddit Faces Global Outage as ‘Server Error’
Reddit was hit with yet another widespread outage, leaving thousands of people around the world who visited the link to skulk themselves or received a nasty ‘server error’ in the process.
It primarily plagued countries in the western hemisphere and made it impossible for some of you to load the site, sign-in, or post on community vacancies.
The BBC reports that complaints spiked on Reddit and other sites where users can report website outages, like the third-party monitor Down Detector, where users shared messages saying things like “Something went wrong” or simply “Server error.”
The issues occurred site-wide (both on its web and mobile versions), disrupting the creation of posts, community functions including conversations on popular subreddits or live threads for sports events, news events and other updates.
The recent outage is far from the only one, as this social platform infrastructure have seen multiple similar incidents lately due to signs of strain on its uptimes, particularly at busy times.
Across Twitter and various other social media sites users have been mocking the latest glitch in many a meme and frustrations were aired. This outage came at the worst time for discussion-based users who were talking about current events like sports and entertainment, which could only fuel anger towards Twitter.
Reddit’s tech staff responded promptly by confirming the problem on their status page and said it will fix it.
While it is still unclear as to what caused the outage, these sorts of outages are usually because of this social platform servers getting overloaded as a result of you guys bombarding them with too much traffic or due to some external factor.
Over the last twelve months, we have been rebuilding core infrastructure… rather ambitious with 50k+ daily actives spread across the globe.
The new outage again renewed a well-worn discussion within the this social platform community: how reliable is our platform? Such again would not be a strange problem for the servers to have been having a hiccups as of late and users are starting to notice.
It seems that the daily needs of many users who rely on WABETA for news and discussions – mainly in the tech, entertainment, live events realm – require a more stable experience.
Cute how this sort of an outage is usually the profile of another event in its own right within this social platform. In their frustration, they must chuckle at the togetherness of it all and so have started threads on other sites making Reddit being down jokes.
This comradery, even in the face of technical hurdles, is a testament to the larger sense of community that this social platform builds.
But for people using it as a way to follow big news or events like WWE Raw, outages have the potential to be much more invasive. Although Reddit is working hard on these problems, where news can break and a discussion needs to happen in real-time for relevant topics, users are expecting less interruptions.
this social platform technical team is currently on it and services are supposed to be coming back soon. Users can refer the real time updates on Reddit’s status page or continue the conversation via platforms of Twitter.
