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Reddit Restores Service After Major Outage

Thousands of users in the UK and US experienced disruptions as Reddit faced server connection issues early Monday.

Overview

  • Reddit experienced a significant outage early Monday, affecting thousands of users primarily in the UK and US.
  • The outage began around midnight, peaking at approximately 1:30 a.m. ET, with most issues reported on the website rather than the app.
  • Users encountered error messages such as 'no healthy upstream' and 'upstream connect error,' indicating server connection problems.
  • Reddit acknowledged the performance degradation and worked to resolve the issue, restoring normal service later in the day.
  • During the downtime, users could still access the site by visiting the old version of Reddit at old.reddit.com.