Hmm not sure why I got downvoted on this.. I didn't mean that Reddit went down but that they froze the creation of new content because of it.
"reddit is in "emergency read-only mode" right now because Amazon is experiencing a degradation. they are working on it but we are still waiting for them to get to our volumes. you won't be able to log in. we're sorry and will fix the site as soon as we can."
If anything - and this may well be due to their experience with faults in the infrastructure - it shows that they have a fallback as opposed to the other services that are completely unavailable and have no way to continue business at some form of capacity and are just playing a waiting game at this point. Credit goes out to Reddit in this scenario imho.
The Reddit people do read HN and do what they can with the resources and manpower available to them. It disgusts me to see so much knocking of Reddit on HN particularly when Amazon is usually the problem.
I would upvote your cheap shot if you administered a top-200 site with a technical staff of three.
I don't have much karma to begin with so I didn't mean to "offend" anyone. Just thought it would be interesting discussion since I tried to post to Reddit today and realized it wasn't possible. Thanks for helping me recover some of my karma back :)
A cheap shot is making fun of a person for having a birth defect or a dead mother, but ok, I guess I came a little close with this last one. I'll be sure to be nicer to the $10 million corporation.
