Reddit had a short outage (that’s what you say it?) today. What came to my mind is we could use a script that checks if reddit has issues and if it has it could notify us through gmail or whatever and then we have we quickly make a twitter post with appropriate hashtags #redditdown etc. Everyone during outage goes to twitter to ask what happened, that’s how they could know we exist. How we can check if the reddit is down? Haven’t investigated it yet. There is this site or starters: https://www.redditstatus.com/
EDIT: Not sure if it’s worth the effort because such events occur very rarely.
Not bad idea. It shouldn’t be that hard to implement either. The status site already has RSS feed so just a simple RSS reader would do the work.
It’s pretty easy to do, something like https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma would work really well.
We already use it to check the status of HC, so it can be extended to any other site: https://status.hilariouschaos.com
If it helps I can make it e-mail you when Reddit is down, PM me your e-mail address.
How does it work? Doe it check response codes? Because at least during last outage reddit page was loading, but there were some issues with loading content I think. Only the layout was visible or something similar.
I guess we should first know exactly which endpoints to check. Not just reddit.com but the ones that pull data as well. I’ll check that later and let you know.
Yeah it just checks response codes, I guess if the outage is a bit more subtle then it won’t catch it.
