Reddit has acknowledged on social media that technical issues appear to be causing the popular message board service to suffer some outages. The problems appeared to have begun on Wednesday and were still affecting the site and app as of Thursday morning.
The site Downdetector showed a spike of more than 45,000 complaints on Wednesday afternoon and then an even bigger spike of nearly 70,000 reports around 9 a.m. ET Thursday morning. (Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.)
In our own tests, Reddit was down and then back up on the web, but the app was working fine. An error on a browser page appeared once Reddit was back up on Thursday that said, “we have encountered an error. Please try again later,” although content did appear on the page.
Reddit did not immediately reply to an email about the outages.
Reddit posted an announcement using a meme on X: “There was a bug in a recent update we made, but a fix is in place and we’re ramping it back up.” A post from Wednesday simply said, “Sorry sorry sorry,” while another responded to the question of whether Reddit was down with, “Yes. We’re working on it,” after another post acknowledged degraded performance on the platform from Redditstatus.com.
The degraded performance problem was still showing on Redditstatus around 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.
