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Reddit Restores Service After Hour-Long Global Outage

Elevated site errors were resolved in under an hour following widespread reports of a partial outage across desktop and mobile platforms.

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Overview

  • At 11:52 a.m. ET Reddit’s status page reported investigating elevated errors affecting desktop web, mobile web and native apps worldwide.
  • By 12:07 p.m. ET the team identified the cause, deployed a fix at 12:21 p.m. and restored full service by 12:38 p.m. ET.
  • Down Detector recorded over 107,000 outage reports in the U.S. and more than 14,000 in the U.K., with 62% of issues tied to the mobile app.
  • Users encountered error messages such as “Oops! Something went wrong” and “no content to display” when loading posts.
  • This outage was one of Reddit’s routine brief interruptions, as the site typically experiences two to three short outages per month.