I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We're so used to crazy uptimes that it's easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I remember when 'literally' wasn't the only adverb people knew.

[–] Stern 5 points 11 months ago

Do you literally remember it, or merely figuratively?

[–] ad_on_is 3 points 11 months ago

Well... technically....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

🎶 “She is literally the Polaroid of perfection…” 🎶

[–] Mrkawfee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember the "by what right do you exclude the population" video when Reddit was down. Good times long before the enshittification.

Edit: here's the video: https://youtu.be/KqRPOEa3P44?si=d5k94eccnJz7SauS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Who'd have guessed that volunteers without big bags of cash usually only actually have one or two actual servers running and they somehow can't afford a whole fleet of failover servers for when traffic gets too high.

[–] ad_on_is 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually, I'm more used to the big sites going down, than small ones, but considering the fact that they are well-fed to come back online, compared to volunteer projects, just gave me some concerns

[–] dipshit 1 points 11 months ago

I totally understand, and it’s a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, it’s entirely possible that monitoring isn’t in place, or it is in place but notifications aren’t setup, or that is the case but people can’t respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours.. I’m speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.