I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.
I think this possibly shows that they have a good understanding of what's most important to their users. If they were to ensure the application was highly available (think six 9s), then they would be sacrificing resources elsewhere in order to achieve this. They could recognize that an outage will not be a "life or death" event for their users and have decided the trade-off was worth it.
Counterpoint: Or, they could just be lazy (or incapable) and haven't tried to solve for higher availability. This is not likely.
I think the actual site, Reddit.com, is the one with more outages.
If they are like every other major company out there, status page reports are a function of a manager or PM judgement call, not the output of a monitoring system.
"I can answer this! According to various sources (mainly, complaints on the redesign subreddit), the new.reddit interface is a lot less tolerant of timeouts and delays. Old.reddit was much more relaxed and would wait longer before throwing up errors (like logouts and such), but new.reddit is RESPONSIVE!, and the backend isn't playing nice with the new, tighter tolerances."
Full AMA https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9x577m/were_reddi...
Also a 2018 AMA summaryhttps://github.com/yanhan/notes/blob/master/reddit-sysadmins...
They've also made major efforts to keep the site socially sane for the majority of users (for better or worse, IMO generally better) with their moderation model.
Whether or not it's a great site technically is irrelevant. It's something people want and something I keep coming back to because there's no equivalent when it comes to niche communities.
Niche specific forums are better at everything niche communities want/need in a discussion space except bringing on new users. Considering the kinds of users you get when you're in close proximity to a colossus of internet riff-raff I don't think this is a big tradeoff.
Surely you're not attempting to imply that the search on old reddit worked in the first place?
Imagine having to manage a separate login for a different forum for every topic you’re interested in. And having to check 10+ forums a day for responses to your comments.
With reddit it’s a common interface to every topic I’m interested in. I’m subscribed to about 60 subreddits now, from off grid cabins to deep learning to Spacex.
I personally maintain three - A professional one mainly used on technology forums, another for politics only and then a final one for... Other stuff.
I know lots of people who do similar.
Bookmarks folder + Browser password manager + email notifications solves this for N forums where N is less than ~20.
Sure, it's harder to have a really shallow level of engagement in a community if it's not all algorithmicly curated on one page (you actually have to go to the forums and check what's up vs seeing just the popular stuff in front of you) but I think for most interests that's probably a good thing for the community around that interest.
[] https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/04/reddits-monthly-active-use...
I expected this to be a page that just said:
"Mostly upset about stuff, but still quite witty, completely random, and - this is a re-post."
