Reddit is back online after a major outage forced everyone to touch grass


by Engadget

Engadget— Reddit is back after a major outage forced the entire site offline. All told, the outage lasted under an hour before company techs fixed the backend problem, according to an official status page. This outage impacted each and every page of the internet's favorite collection of disparate community forums. Reddit's fix looks to be working just fine, as everything is loading on my end. The site experienced another outage last year, which also was patched in under an hour. Those Reddit engineers do...

Daily Mail—Nationwide app is back online after two-hour outage that left thousands of frustrated customers across the UK without access to funds. According to Down Detector, more than 2,000 customers across the country were affected by an outage at around 12pm BST on Friday.

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Mother Jones—Forcing workers back to the office could be terrible for the environment. This story was originally published by Grist and Fast Company and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When office workers stopped working in offices in 2020, trading their cubicles for living room couches during COVID-19 lockdowns, many began questioning those hours they had spent commuting to work. All those rushed mornings stuck in traffic could […]