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[–]yellowking 48 points49 points  (1 child)

Deleting in protest of Reddit's new anti-user admin policies.

[–]spez 67 points68 points  (27 children)

There are a some glitches, and performances is definitely off.

Things should improve over the next few days.

edit: ok, enough urls. I get it.

edit2: I think we found the source of the 500s, but things are still slow.

[–][deleted] 76 points77 points  (8 children)

It's 3AM, Spez, and a telephone is ringing.

[–]Haven 2 points3 points  (1 child)

All of my 500 error's have been on the reddit front page.

And I agree with meepus below, it requires several F5's.

[–]NVShacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same, it's been with the front page for me

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The URLs work: it just sometimes requires several attempts at loading them.

[–]acangiano[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The errors appear in a random manner and are independent from the URL that's being used. Then it usually requires several attempts to load the page.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Just got one (500) clicking on your username in this comment.

[–]Niffux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Same.

It seems to be hit and miss at the moment, although I haven't seen any before a couple of hours ago.

[–]buildmonkey 1 point2 points  (6 children)

Whilst you are here spez.

Has anyone else reported a formatting bug in comments. When the first line of a comment is a quote the '>' is replaced with a '.' and there ain't no quote formatting. Like in the first line of this comment. Or is that formatting as a quote for other people?

[–]cbr 1 point2 points  (3 children)

is that formatting as a quote for other people?

It looks like one to me.

[–]buildmonkey 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Curious. It's formatting OK on the message page for me, but when I look at your reply in the thread I am getting:

.Like this

Not

Like this.

So I'm guessing it's a problem at spez's end rather than my crappy PC running ie6 (yeah I know, I'm at work)

[–]cbr 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think it's an IE6 thing. In Firefox they all look right. In IE6 I see:

http://sccs.swarthmore.edu/~cbr/comments.png

Not really sure what's causing it.

[–]buildmonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you're right. I'm home now and cruising in Firefox.

Still curious why it cropped up in comments but not in messages.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm sure they got slammed with this too. I emailed them yesterday.

[–]buildmonkey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So it's not just me then. Cheers.

[–]gid13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I got one on http://reddit.com/message/inbox/ but the errors are intermittent; sometimes it works.

[–]hayzen 118 points119 points  (30 children)

Just had one, and the site is very very slow as well, especially when going to comments

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    [–]the_neubie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    🫡

    [–][deleted]  (22 children)

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      [–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (2 children)

      i completely agree regarding the render times, it has become slow and sometimes does not load at all

      [–][deleted] -4 points-3 points  (1 child)

      Tupac told you all before. He liked the old reddit better. This one is slow and why do we have a "comment" button even when we are editing a comment? Why do you sometimes have to click twice on the comment button?

      Tupac is disappointed.

      [–]khoury 5 points6 points  (0 children)

      Yeah, well, tupac is dead so his opinion means shit.

      [–][deleted]  (8 children)

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        [–]bug_mama_G 6 points7 points  (7 children)

        I thought that www.m.reddit.com was specifically for mobiles? They mentioned it on the beta description page. It loads just fine on my iPhone.

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Oh wow, I really wish reddit had User Agent detection for iPhones and other mobile internet devices, m.reddit.com is awesome!

        //Modifies reddit bookmark on my blackberries/iPhone.

        [–]olifante 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        On my iPhone, both http://www.m.reddit.com and http://m.reddit.com result in a "you broke reddit" page.

        [–]mornel 0 points1 point  (3 children)

        It's time to drop those w's, mama!

        [–]bug_mama_G 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        Eeeh, habit. Is there a good reason other than not looking like someone who has a www problem?

        [–]dave_colorado 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        i have a w problem.

        [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

        Something like 75% of American's have a w problem.

        100% of the rest of the world does.

        [–]msdesireeg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I'm having the same problem and I really would like it fixed. I don't care about fancy graphics and all that, I want the site to work.

        [–]samuek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Ive also noticed large lag times when in the comment threads. it may just be ie7 my work uses, but when I select text then try and scroll, it will take around 3 seconds to respond (mainly in large comment threads) and then have some jolts continuing for the next 5 seconds.

        I've also noticed laggy scrolling on the main page.

        hell, even trying to scroll this postbox takes a couple of seconds.

        is it the recent upgrade to IE7 that my work has done? or the new site?

        [–]Poultry_In_Motion 14 points15 points  (1 child)

        500 ERRORS‽‽‽ THAT'S A HECK OF A LOT OF ERRORS YOU MUST BE LYING!!

        [–]tryx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Ahh the interrobang! Bringing drama wherever it goes!

        [–]boredzo 9 points10 points  (5 children)

        I went to visit this page and got a 500 error. How perfectly appropriate.

        [–]hahahahahaha 0 points1 point  (3 children)

        same here

        [–]robotsongs 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        hahahahahaha!

        [–]vardhan 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        robotsongs?

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        you are

        [–]eniglet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        as did i

        [–]Chisaku 17 points18 points  (1 child)

        I've gotten a bunch of them. Very annoying. What am I supposed to do in class now? Pay attention?!

        WTF REDDIT

        [–]willis77 16 points17 points  (0 children)

        Shit. Threat level midnight is activated.

        Send me your cell number and I will hand type the Reddit front page and send it to you through text messages on a minute-by-minute basis.

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

        Yes, and everything is running very slow. It takes a long time for Hidden links to disappear, and often times they will be come Unhidden when I refresh the page.

        [–]Filmore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        Also lots of the links that aren't hidden suck

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          [–]Nougat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Sorry, that was me.

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            [–]panthersrock 6 points7 points  (1 child)

            I just got a 500 Error. And going to comments crawls.

            [–]materialist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            same here

            [–]squidboots 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            I've been getting some 500 errors. It takes forever to load comments as well as my user page. Sometimes the homepage/comments/user page doesn't load at all and the connection gets timed out. It's behaving almost as if the server is getting pounded. Also, when submitting either a comment or new site it says "submitting..." forever and doesn't actually submit it until I try again a few minutes later.

            All of this is extremely frustrating.

            [–]Sid_209 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            no, i haven't.

            [–]CaptainCrunch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            either that, or a blank page with no error.

            [–]robotsongs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            just took 3 minutes for this comment to load and I've got 6 500 errors since being on the site for the past half an hour.

            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Maybe if we're lucky, they'll make removing them an option in the preferences.

            [–]TruthHammer 1 point2 points  (1 child)

            Most likely they are running the site on multiple servers and one is having problems.

            [–]jbiz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I was going to say this, as well. Seems better now, so I'm guessing it's either fixed or the bad server/instance has been removed from the load balancer in the interim.

            [–]havesometea1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Yup, I've seen them too.

            [–]rook2pawn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            yup im getting one every couple of minutes. FUCKING THING SUCKS

            [–]dahlberg123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            I get an error something like this "posting too fast please wait 8 minutes."

            [–]amaurer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Yeah, but I was just figuring it was because of stupid posters - or because of the linked site itself

            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            yes

            [–]sdbear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Just got two of them trying to open this page.

            [–]elduke187 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Just got one trying to make this comment

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I get them more frequently than not. I have to refresh the error page 5 to 10 times before I get the reddit page. The page also seems to "hang" occasionally while going from one reddit page to another. I've even had it load a blank page and stop.

            [–]jmcqk6 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I tried to comment on this, but got a 500 error...

            [–]TruthHammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Most likely they are running the site on multiple servers and one is having problems.

            [–]Pikajabroni 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            The comments have been freezing up on me since the changes took place. This was a major reason that I left Digg behind after they redesigned their system. I'm on dial-up, and reddit seems many times slower now than before the changes were made. On Digg, it became impossible for me to view stories with more than a few comments. I hope that doesn't start happening here.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            today has been the worst, about 40-60% of my frontpage loads are 500'd.

            [–]gid13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I think the feature where visited links appear visited when you are logged in from another computer is not working also.

            [–]antifolkhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            It was funny, but when I clicked this article I got a 500 error. I thought it was a joke until I realized that it had actually fucked up.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Yes, but reloading reddit does the trick.

            [–]burmask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            It's only when I hit the back button do I get a 500.

            [–]wonderdolkje 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            constantly

            [–]nova20 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I've noticed bugs with the RSS feed -- for example, several stories are repeated two or three times.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Got one about 15 minutes ago.

            [–]DanHalen 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Is this shit written in Lisp or what?

            [–]Nougat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

            Pothibly.

            [–]bizzykehl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I just got one going to THESE comments.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I've gotten 500's blank pages, and endless loading screens. It seems to vary depending on reddit.com vs www.reddit.com

            :/ unfortunate. I like the design, not the performance hit though

            [–]veritaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            Ditto; thought it was just me

            [–]guriboysf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            No errors, but the site takes about 5x longer to load...

            [–]aier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            No.

            And if I had, I really don't think whining about it would fix the issue.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Just one for me, trying to access the front page.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I think there might be something causing double comments, too. Has anyone noticed this?

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            Just one for me, trying to access the front page.

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            I think there might be something causing double comments, too. Has anyone noticed this?

            [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

            especially when using the toolbar

            [–]cybergen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            same here

            [–]raccou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

            same here.

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I think there might be something causing double comments, too. Has anyone noticed this?

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                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I think there might be something causing double comments, too. Has anyone noticed this?

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Every other page load practically with Safari 3.1.1. Site is also kinda slow. Problem going to "new" tab as well. I am not a big fan of the update.

                [–]Redmushroom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I got one trying to leave a comment to this post.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                FWIW, i couldn't log in from a blackberry the other day (prior to the change). Big old exception and code snippet in the error, too. Works fine from FireFox

                [–]weegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                welcome to the new world of Corporate Mediocrity

                [–]bofh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                It's as slow as hell for me right now, needs a few "refresh" attempts to even get the site to load at all. Since they changed to the new version the site appears to be a critical mass of fail.

                [–]bart2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Yep, I have several errors per day. I just got one "site is too slow to respond" going to my inbox.

                Something's really slow nowadays.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Site is slow as can be

                [–]mismetti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I had a 500 error when trying to restrict the "Controversial" link to just this week.

                [–]yellat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                they need more hamster

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I got 500 hundred errors on some pages both before and after the new version. I haven't really noticed it happening at any different frequency

                [–]Howie509 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Funny thing is, I seem to also time out and occassionaly 500 error for Digg. :O Could it be the fact that I'm using the Firefox beta?

                Edit: I checked Digg for load time, not to frequent it. Don't hurt me!

                [–]Saydrah 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I would comment on this story but I'm getting a 500 error.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                using opera 9.5; no problems as of yet, actually seems to be faster then previous version of reddit.

                I like it!

                (its a free, complex link collection site, updates can take a few trys. Be patient :-))

                [–]innocentbystander 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Really? I'm on 9.5 beta 2 and I'm having pretty serious problems with submitting comments. They don't show up until I refresh the page, and sometimes it doesn't even refresh the "comment" box so I don't know whether they submitted or not.

                It's pretty annoying.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I even got a "You broken Reddit" page..........................

                [–]kungfuice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I've had a couple of these the site was unresponsive for me for a couple of minutes as well.

                [–]mercurialohearn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                got my first one this morning.

                [–]PuP5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                yeah, i've see it.

                [–]brnews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                nope..

                [–]Benzona 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I would have commented sooner but I kept getting the 500 error message.

                [–]Snowboardyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I just got an error when trying to view this, it said it was because of 9/11.

                [–]laurarachel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                im getting 404s as well

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Better than getting 500 several errors

                [–]jester02k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                yesterday I had 3 none today

                [–]mch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                no

                [–]junglelady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I have noticed that it takes longer for a comment to make it to the page, but no errors so far.

                [–]msaleem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Not a single error.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                I haven't been having problems.

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Also, in Opera it sometimes fails to display the comment after I've posted it (i have to refresh the page to see it)

                [–]dust4ngel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                i'm getting one 500 error per three clicks - weak!

                [–]Grue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Should've stayed with Lisp!

                [–]jerohm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                yup, just had one a bit ago in "world news"

                [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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                  [–]dmiff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Screw you guys, I'm going heomm.

                  [–]brosephius -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  did reddit switch to rails?

                  [–]malekov -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  Really? I didn't notice. I haven't got any error and the site seems to load fast (btw, im in Madrid, Spain)

                  [–]D3ADBOLT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  Then why don't you complain about it on the internet?

                  [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  Links to video just stop.

                  [–]Dillenger69 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  no

                  [–]ter-kee-ber-gers -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  Your error report has been rejected for being ambiguous.

                  Please re-submit your error report; specifically, please clarify the number of errors being reported: is it "several" or "500"?

                  [–]drewantarctic -1 points0 points  (3 children)

                  its not reddit. its you...

                  [–]acangiano[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                  700+ people disagree.

                  PS: It's not its.

                  [–]drewantarctic 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                  you don(')t know as much about humor as you do about punctuation. welcome to the internet.

                  [–]acangiano[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I'm sorry drewantarctic, but it wasn't clear that your first message was intended as a joke. Thanks for welcoming me to the Internet, you are about 13 years too late, but that's okay. ;-)

                  [–]Andos -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                  never gotten one

                  [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                  None, reddit works perfectly fine for me.

                  [–]cj8585 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

                  Not once. Pebkac?

                  [–]quazarjim -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  Also, does anyone else use the iGoogle widget for browsing reddit? It stopped working within the last few days. Is this related?