Reddit is experiencing a nationwide outage that has taken down the app and website. Thousands of users have reported error messages and comments disappearing from the site.
Somewhat tangential question: Why do so many sites have links to an external status monitoring site, but when the site is down and you go to check the status on that external status monitoring site, it says everything’s fine? What’s the point of the status site if it doesn’t actually acknowledge that there’s any sort of outage nor provide any info on it?
the route/connection between the monitoring and you is OK; between the company and the monitoring is OK; but between you and the company is not OK – this means that, so far as the monitoring can tell, the site is up.
The status checks run at some interval and you’re hitting it before that interval
There’s some threshold of errors that needs to happen first so tiny hiccups don’t register as full-blown outages.
the monitoring/metrics are poorly-designed
There are probably other cases. I don’t know the architecture in this case, so I won’t speculate at any others.
Somewhat tangential question: Why do so many sites have links to an external status monitoring site, but when the site is down and you go to check the status on that external status monitoring site, it says everything’s fine? What’s the point of the status site if it doesn’t actually acknowledge that there’s any sort of outage nor provide any info on it?
There are a few options off the top off my head
There are probably other cases. I don’t know the architecture in this case, so I won’t speculate at any others.
Maybe it’s not automated and whoever is responsible isn’t awake yet.