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08-12-2016, 04:25 AM
Reddit's emergency shutdown just freaked everyone out
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Reddit is coming back online after an outage that lasted more than an hour.*
The issues began around 3:26 p.m. PT, according to the site's status page (http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4), following "a slight issue with a routine software upgrade."
Though the company promised to be back online "momentarily," it wasn't until more than an hour later — at 4:57 p.m. PT — when they updated to say "bringing the site back slowly."*
While it was down, users who tried to visit the site were greeted with a message saying "Reddit is down for emergency maintenance." Other users saw error pages.*
Unsurprisingly, Redditors did **t take the roughly 90-minute downtime well. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/reddit-down-emergency-maintenance/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Reddit is coming back online after an outage that lasted more than an hour.*
The issues began around 3:26 p.m. PT, according to the site's status page (http://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/902y2bfc3bq4), following "a slight issue with a routine software upgrade."
Though the company promised to be back online "momentarily," it wasn't until more than an hour later — at 4:57 p.m. PT — when they updated to say "bringing the site back slowly."*
While it was down, users who tried to visit the site were greeted with a message saying "Reddit is down for emergency maintenance." Other users saw error pages.*
Unsurprisingly, Redditors did **t take the roughly 90-minute downtime well. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/11/reddit-down-emergency-maintenance/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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