Reddit suffered a major outage on Wednesday, plunging its millions of devoted users into discussion darkness, with no place to drop their hot takes, memes, and AMA.
As of 4PM ET, the popular website was returning a mostly blank page with an upstream error at the top
Down Detector put Reddit at the top of its outage list.
Reddit appeared to be recovering by 4:13PM but the instability remains.
Some pages, like the all-important Popular, remain blank.
On the bright side, you can still peruse some of Reddit’s homepage.
Today, perhaps coincidentally, was also the day of US News Anchor Katie Couric’s first-ever Reddit AMA. It launched at 2PM ET, though we’re not pointing any fingers.
Post by @katiecouricView on Threads
While the Reddit homepage appears to be sort of functional, Reddit’s own status checker is reporting degraded performance for most of its services. No word, yet, on what’s causing the issues. and, yes, “popular” remains offline.
As of 4:36PM ET, Reddit’s homepage was failing again. Clearly, the issue, whatever it is, is significant enough that Reddit’s developers are likely playing a game of whackamole with critical failures.
While the function for adding a new Reddit post appears, the system is still reporting multiple errors, and ultimately nothing gets posted. Guess all those anxious Reddit users will have to head over to Discord to post updates.
As is usually the case, people on other social media platforms are enjoying a little schadenfreude over Reddit’s ongoing problems.
I hear Reddit is down Y’all know what that means #GME pic.twitter.com/ghFDPuTkoPNovember 20, 2024
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Even upstart social media platform Bluesky was paying attention though it, too, was suffering through a series of small outages on Wednesday. There is no indication they are connected. Bluesky keeps going down because of its sudden and almost unprecedented popularity.
Some parts of Reddit appear to be performing normally except for this annoying error message banner that appears at the top of almost every page. It’s another sign that all is not well in Reddit Land.
If Down Detector is any measure, Reddit appears to recovering. It’s obviously not out of the woods yet and Reddit’s status page has yet to show an update, but all signs point to an imminent return to normal Reddit up- and down-voting.
Reddit’s Popular section remains mostly down and while the other subreddits are live, Reddit’s response time when you click on any of them is quite slow. This is still not the Reddit you know and love.
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