Further, as a dev of 15 years, I’m not even sure what you mean by “crash” here. Are you saying that Reddit serves exclusively 500s or timeouts for a sustained period of time on a weekly basis? Or that it serves more than zero 500s at some point during a given week? Or that you, personally, encounter an issue of any kind over a week?
So many ways to describe “crashes” that yeah, by some definitions it probably does, but “can’t use the service” such as what Twitter is experiencing, I don’t think that’s accurate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/2trmnk/why_is...
(See: all the people agreeing)
One of the triggers used to be that if a thread got too many comments it would bring down the website. So sports communities had to start splitting up their game threads during massive events so Reddit wouldn't break.
It definitely used to happen more often, but it was doing it for me yesterday coincidentally.
And stale. When they changed algos in ~2016(?) to try and stop certain subs I swear it got stale and feels like it updates on a cron job once a day anymore.
At least once a week i'm met with the 'trippin' out snoo for a few minutes.
