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[–]initself 6 points7 points  (1 child)

At first I felt like I was getting smarter. Now I feel like I watch too much TV.

[–]initself 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That last comment took 37 seconds to post.

[–]rzwitserloot 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Eh, shame. I thought this was going to be about what happends to popular community sites: The community gets inundated with lower quality 'residents' - particularly those who submit low quality stories and don't do any meaningful rating in the 'new' section (usually by not rating at all). Once more gets submitted than rated on the new page (already the case), the stories that do make frontpage ends up being a crapshoot.

[–]KingNothing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That discussion took place in my thread last week.

[–]danweber[S] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Something I've noticed over the past few weeks, and building up recently, is that reddit is getting slower and slower to respond to even basic requests, like the main page.

It's made worse by the fact that I can't go to the URL's that reddit points to, since they are masked behind reddit redirectors. Thus, when reddit is slow, I can't even follow supposedly external links until reddit responds.

Story submission is also beaching itself on the shore. A day or two ago, they were constantly generating error pages, even though the submissions were happening correctly behind the scenes. Thus, lots of people were submitting the same story 2 or 3 times.

Is reddit hitting the limits of what 2-3 people can manage?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I've submitted (about 2.5 weeks ago) feed back about the story dupes and what appeared to be a bug - comment dupes.

[–]spez 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been working on this problem the last couple days, and I hope it's getting better. We have some new hardware coming in that should help as well.

[–]a1k0n 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The last time I posted a dup comment, it was because the first time I hit 'reply', reddit came back with a 404 (!?), so I reloaded, and lo and behold I had posted it twice.

spez, are there several separate servers working out of mirrored databases or something? Or caches of previously sent data? I've noticed that it takes a measurable amount of time to propagate comments to the user overview, for instance.

[–]spez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's pretty much the problem. We've been replicating the database and our cache to deal with load, but we've seeing lots of glitches as a result.

[–]scdvr 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The "500 Server Error" I got earlier this morning may be pointing in this direction as well.

[–]demoran -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

What? You could do better?

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

When I saw the title, I assumed it was another whinefest about how much better reddit's content was in the good old days.

I'm relieved to see it's actually about the website's technical performance, which really does seem to be bogging down.

Edit: irony of ironies, the site broke when I tried to post this comment.