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Reddit Outage Disrupts Over 30,000 Users Before Service Restored

Engineering teams resolved elevated error rates to restore full service within hours

Overview

  • The outage on June 3, 2025 affected more than 30,800 users at its peak, according to Downdetector reports.
  • User incident reports peaked around 2:34 p.m. ET and declined to fewer than 600 by 3:31 p.m. ET.
  • Engineers traced the disruption to elevated error rates within Reddit’s infrastructure and launched an immediate investigation.
  • Service was confirmed as fully restored later the same day on Reddit’s public status page.
  • The incident prompted a 1.5% drop in Reddit’s share price and highlighted ongoing platform stability challenges.