Comment by IceDane
20 hours ago
It is blatantly obvious to anyone with just a little bit of experience that the reddit devs barely know what they are doing. This applies to their frontend as well as backend. For some reason, reddit is also the only major social network where downtime is expected. Reddit throwing 500 errors under load happens literally every week.
Reddit also puts the "eventually" in "eventually consistent". Not in the sense of consistency being driven by events, but in the colloquial sense of "someday". The new message indicator will go away ... eventually. Your comment will show up ... eventually.
Presumably the mobile apps works better; they don’t care very much about the website because they want to push everyone to the app anyway.