Reddit is back after a widespread outage
/ The internet’s forum had a back-end issue that knocked Reddit completely offline.
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By Emma Roth, a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.
Apr 25, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC
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Reddit stopped working for most users this afternoon. For nearly an hour, the site didn’t load and displayed an error message reading, “Oops, something went wrong, please try again later.”
At 12:52PM ET, the platform made an update on its status page, saying, “An issue with a Reddit backend has impacted many users on our site.” The site later said it had “identified the issue” and is “remediating it.” The outage appears to have started around 12:45PM ET, with Downdetector recording a massive spike of outage reports at that time.
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Reddit seems to have dealt with issues earlier today as well. Its status page says it resolved another issue at around 12PM ET. Now that Reddit’s back online, all of the internet’s reply guys, commenters, lurkers, and posters of all stripes can carry on with their days.
Update April 25th, 1:24PM ET: Added an update from Reddit.
Update April 25th, 1:31PM ET: Noted that Reddit is now online.
